ila was diagnosed with a left front glioblastoma, grade iv. >> yeah. it's devastating, but -- i have my two young kids i think about, and so that was it, and so i'm like i'm going do fit my kids, fight for my kids. >> leila was admitted to the hospital on march 7. the very next day dr. black's team took out as much of the tumor as they could and then came six weeks of radiation therapy and chemotherapy. after that, something new. an experimental treatment. a vaccine against cancer. >> one of the strong eest defens we have against disease is our immune system. one of the first things that brain tumor has to do in order to survive in the brain is that it has to make itself invisible to the immune system. >> the experimental drug isn't like a flu vaccine. it doesn't keep you from getting cancer. it uses cells from your own body toen courage your immune system to mont blanc a targeted aggressive defense. >> we had 16 patients that were newly diagnosed with gleam oh blast ma forming. >> this small group, 16 patients, did more than three times better. >> of

. >> reporter: she was diagnosed with glioblastoma. doctors gave her this, a kind of helmet she wears up to 18 hours a bombards her brain with electrical current. >> the current interrupts the ability of cells to divide, there by leading to cellular death, there by leading to tumor death. >> reporter: he is a specialist. he says the device has shown a remarkable ability to not only slow the growth of tumors but in some cases tumors have shrunk. it can work just as well as chemo but without the side effects. >> this is equivalent to chemotherapy in terms of outcome. >> reporter: they plan to test it on other types. elaine said other than getting sleetly warm at times, she often forgets it's there. linda so, abc2 news. >> doctors say at night the patients plug the device into the wall. right now it's only being used in cases where brain cancer returns after initial treatment but studies are underway to see if it might work as an option immediately. for more on this story and the latest health knew, head to abc2news.com/facebook and like

we have 59 people and are there poor hood with glioblastoma brain tumors. no agency wants to look at because the politics gets involved. what i am concerned about is, if the agencies are going to be lax like that, just say it. that figure out a new way to run this agency. maybe we should not have this agency. maybe we better create another one that will provide that oversight so we can get information, so maybe we can help people and maybe we can clean up the water. but as long as these politics come into play, we are going nowhere. it drives me crazy. i was in leadwood, missouri, case we are involved with. we all know how dangerous lead is to children. that is common knowledge. there is a huge defendant out there, instead of dispute be disposing of their lead piles of properly, they just create mounds all over the town, and the kids are playing in them. as we were driving down the street and watching this, we are taking photos of the children. as they waved, their hands were gray from lead underneath. what kind of generation are they going to be? i feel li