kathy silver showed us her closed chemotherapy unit, which had treated 40 patients a day for 20 years sad, because i know that there is room to serve patients and yet, financially, we can't afford to. >> you have the facility to save lives. you have people outside the hospital who need to have their lives saved. and you just can't put two and two together? >> the financial situation that we find ourselves in caused us to make some decisions that i think all of us, to a person would rather not have made. [watch ticking] >> when 60 minutes on cnbc returns, a mother of two fights breast cancer. >> as we sit here at this moment, you don't know... >> i don't know. >> whether there will be another round. >> i don't--i don't know. i don't know. it's just so uncertain right now. i really don't know. [watch ticking] yeah, i'm married. does it matter? you'd do that for me? really? yeah, i'd like that. who are you talking to? uh, it's jake from state farm. sounds like a really good deal. jake from state farm at three in the morning. who is this? it's jake from state farm. what are you wearing, j

plus he had to go through months of radiation and chemotherapy to try to stop the spread of the disease. yet through it all grant has shown remarkable determination which he credits at least in

they has potential for fertility treatment and helping with chemotherapy. there is a tremendous future. it is a nice start-up scientific date. >> where does sperm want to go? >> it uses its tail and they employing the tail to do the electrical work and then a magnetic field to direct the sperm. millions of sperm start off, millions start off, and only one lucky one makes it. they go in the wrong direction, the wrong tube, they only last for two days, it is like they are swimming from los angeles to hawaii people have said and very few can make it. >> you put one in a nice lamborghini and they can control it. >> this will help more women getting pregnant? >> absolutely. maybe we can do appropriate diseases for other diseases, as well,. >> if this pans out we can use the nano technology to deliver the chemotherapy, et cetera, and sperm are stupid, men are stupid, they need guidance. >> i am not sure about that. >> but to deliver drugs for cancer treatment through the technology to the source could help protect healthy cells too? >> exactly. >> is it available

that means she will have rounds of chemotherapy.he knows it will be tough, she said she will work through it, drawing strength from another gma cancer survivor, robin roberts. >> i saw a robin do it. i know how strong you were. and you give me strength, because it is important to get up each day even if you don't feel great. >> she shared her story in the most recent addition of people magazine. she hopes to inspire others, including her two daughters. >> it's good to know that you get to be thankful to be alive. it's a reminder to all of us that you never know what is around the corner. is to have four months of chemotherapy. she will begin that on december 16. sendingf course, we are her nothing but well wishes. >> exactly. >> welcome, eileen. happy to have you here today. it's weird that it's so warm. especially when we are talking nationally about how bitterly cold it is in central and western sections of the united states. >> but it's coming. >> it coming. it's coming. it certainly does not feel like the holidays. to feature a

ergo, no chemotherapy. how many americans are in a situation like this, in limbo where they need life-saving treatment and they need it now? >> one is too many. we have a situation now where we're talking about millions of people. and whether that represents 1%, 5%, 10%, you know, e is too many. we have to get away from this mentality that, you know, you don't really matter. we're looking at this group of people. this is never what america was supposed to be. and it is important for the people of america themselves to start having compassion for each other. because if we allow the government to take a segment of us and say, you're not so important, but i'm going to take care of this group, then we are just as guilty as the bureaucrats in the government. >> when you say the american people -- obviously, they care about each other and they care about their own health care. i mean, can you fathom ever in history, of hearing an administration say that's only 5%. it's only 15 million people. you know, not a big

he tried chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant from his sister. both failed. >> there was a moment there where i thought that was it. he probably wouldn't live much longer. >> reporter: nick's last hope was an experimental treatment, a clinical trial at the university of pennsylvania. >> when they start talking about doing clinical trials as the alternative. that's when you're really throwing hail mary's. >> how did it feel as a mom knowing this is it. >> just not knowing what's going to happen, it's hard. >> one day we were in his room and i just wanted him to understand where we were at. this was probably the last treatment. >> were you, in fact, telling him if this treatment didn't work -- >> he could die. >> in the treatment nick's doctor tweaked his immune system to make his own body rid itself of cancer. it's a ground breaking approach that captured attention of cancer doctors but there were no promises. nick received personalized cell therapy in may. for a month john and lisa watched over their son. >> do you remember that moment where she

the big concern is how much do we personalize chemotherapy and how much can we afford it. >> with cancer treatments costing $106,000 a year, it's also a big business. in fact, analysts expect pharma companies to allocate more to cancer treatment. >>> and still ahead, complain like a pro as shopper d dissatisfaction rises, how to get your question solved quickly. the answer coming up. >>> as we first told you last night, there is troubling news from target. the names, birth dates, account numbers and even three digit security codes from 40 million credit and debit card accounts may have been stolen from thieves. mary thompson has more details on this startling breach of security. >> how are you this morning? >> reporter: cyber thieves putting a bull's eye on target's back and hitting up to 40 million customers in a massive data breach. >> this puts it into one of the largest data breaches in history. >> reporter: target says the breach ran for 19 days from the day before thanksgiving to sunday, december 15th. those impacted, shoppers using their credit and debit card for purchases at targ

he tried chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant from his sister, both failed. >> it was a moment there where i -- i thought that was it. he probably wouldn't live much longer. >> reporter: nick's last hope was an experimental treatment, a clinical trial at the university of pennsylvania. >> when they start talking about doing clinical trials as the alternative, that's when you're really throwing hail marys. >> reporter: how did it feel as a mom to know this is -- this is it? >> uncertainty. a lot of uncertainty. just not knowing what was going to happen. it's hard. >> one day we're in his room, and i just wanted him to understand where we were at, that, you know, this was probably the last treatment. >> reporter: were you in effect telling him that if this treatment didn't work -- >> he could -- he could die. >> reporter: in the treatment nick's doctors tweaked his immune system to make his own body rid itself of cancer. it's a groundbreaking approach that's captured the attention of cancer doctors, but there were promises. nick received the personalized cell therapy in may. for a mont

namely chemotherapy medication, they can cause sluff ago the skin, the palms of the hands and folds ofnd you can lose your fingerprints. certain professionals see they lose their fingerprints. sects, i see have a big stack of papers in front of you. people who file through stacks of paper, use the fingers a lot during the day, they can see the fingerprints go away. >> i have nod mat chemotherapy. i played violin as a child but that mays left hand, the first thing that came to mind. clayton, the tech expert. could it be that people are losing their fingerprints because we're don'tly on our fingers, either type -- constantly on our fingers, typing. >> it's possible, so the technology needs to be entitier to analyze those versions of our fingerprints that are losing skin because of different typing on key pads and touch screens. i think when we knew that apple would roll us this touch i.d. on the iphone. people were saying i hope it's better than all the other garbage out there. >> my question was, you think that the tsa would have the best technology for fingerprints because we're talkin

-- a renewed bout of chemotherapy and radiation treatment-- because she concluded that the side effects and the pain of all of that, with the very low likelihood that it was going to be effective, was just something she did not want to go through. there are patients that i see who don't want any intervention, any medication, any surgery in their lifetime, and i greatly respect that philosophy. i'll be there to support them, to inform them of what's going on so that they can handle their health in the way they choose. another concern is who controls access to health care in any given situation? the classic example is, of course, the artificial kidney, the dialysis process, where there were initially very few of the machines, and they had to establish the so-called "god committee" made up of people-- worthies from the community-- who had to decide which of a number of patients would get access. and the pressure there got so bad that the answer of the congress eventually was to say we want to make this a medicare entitlement. so we will pay for this treatment, and, of course, then the trea

>> at first, chemotherapy helped. but then the cancer came back with a vengeance. this time an even tha nastier strain. >> it moved even faster. i knew that. >> what went through your mind? >> oh boy, here we go again. >> he was in such bad shape, levis wore a mask wherever he went. >> you wore this? >> yes, outside, wherever i went, just on here over the ears. bang. >> you were so worried about getting in effected? >> any -- infected? >> any germs. i didn't want to get sick. >> by now he was getting blood transfusions every week. >> i'm dying. i'm living on transfusions at that point. and you can't live on transfusions forever. >> in january, his time running out, bob plefs decided on a -- levis decided on a hail mary. a radical new approach at the university of pennsylvania. >> to be even eligible for the protocol you have to have no hope left. meaning no fda therapy would work. in bob's case he had about five pounds of tumor at the time we treated him. in bone marrow and places like his spleen and other organs. >> treating leukemia in a revolutionary way. taking

he was 20 months old he's 5 hose now in remission he had his port removed hose monopoly on the chemotherapy. this particular wish the parents wanted to wait until he had energy. i began assigning this wish with the family in march and started to understand the two miles how are we going to achieve that i made a bold statement into turning this into goth am city. it codify catapulted. so, now it's a much for ininaccurate indicate from the divorce. people starting twoet and reposting and it went viral. it was incredible about make a wish he wanted to be thinking about being batman. there's been a lot of super issues that have happened cross the country but i think that can only happen in san francisco the mayors on board and the city hall it's an incredible outpouring and i love how san francisco is in the spotlight here and people around the world sending their love to san francisco. you kids we thank you for your encourage and we wish we can erase the pain we hope this is the day of magic and that you'll remember this forever. bat kid forever in san francisco >> san francisco is unique in t

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she underwent two surgeries and chemotherapy. she was very sick but always had a smile on her face.est news ever. my mom was in remission. we went on vacation to south carolina to celebrate. our vacation to an abrupt halt one day when my mom called me from across the beach house in a concerned voice. when i walked into the bathroom, i found my mom standing in the mirror where she was examining a lump on her neck. after visiting three different hospitals, we were told that mom had leukemia. yet again, my mom stayed positive. she told everyone that she was an overachiever and got the leukemia after the ovarian cancer to get it over with and be done with it all. after several rounds of chemotherapy my mom went into remission but needed a bone marrow transplant. family wasn't a match and we turned to the register and hoped for a donor. fortunately, they found a perfect match. a complete stranger saved my mom and we are forever grateful. my mom's main goal throughout all of her journey was to dance at my wedding and dance she did. there wasn't a dry eye in the place. >> i love that. and

but we should en since then she's gone through surgery, double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. finally they tell her why she's really there. >> we raised about 6,850, which we've rounded up to $7,000. >> thank you. can i hug you? >> yes. >> thank you so much. >> so they give her one envelope. but that's not it. there's more. >> that was the money raised from our video but we have another anonymous sponsor who wanted to donate to your cause as well. >> so they actually matched our donation. >> i love that they broke it up. >> we have these three gentlemen via skype "right this minute" all the way from l.a. what was it like to be able to do this, to give this woman this gift? >> it was really, really emotional. i couldn't even speak much because i was on the verge of tears. >> how saw some that this organization return the money to you? >> you have heard anything from crystal lately? how's she doing? >> she's very, very thankful. she basically broke down in tears saying this is one of the greatest things anyone can ever do for her. >> it's an attack that comes out of nowhere. >>

>> at first chemotherapy helped. then the cancer came back with a vengeance. this time a nastier strain. >> it was more aggressive, moves faster and i knew that. >> what went through your mind? >> oh, boy, here we go again. >> his immune system was in bad shape bob levis wore a mask to avoid infection. >> you wore one of these wherever you went? >> yes, outside the house any time. on here, over the years, bang. >> you were so worried about getting infected. >> any germs. i didn't want to get sick. >> by now he was getting blood transfusions every week. >> i am dying. i'm living on transfusions. you can't live on transfusions forever. >> in january his time running out, bob levis decided on a hail mary, a new approach at the university of pennsylvania. >> to be eligible, you have to have no hope. bob had about five pounds of tumor at the time we treated him. >> dr carl june and a team of researchers at penn are treating leukemia in a revolutionary way, taking t-cells, white blood cells from the sickest patient and genetically engineering them to attack cancer.

. >> after chemotherapy, they do this mri checkup. >> time for him to get another mri to see how effective it's been. >> here is the mhv without you. it the old scan with the news one. >> and look at this, the chemo is working. but that's not the on thing that's exsitting about this day in their life. >> can you give me a drum roll?m we just broke the top ten. >> he's the bass player. their new album "somewhere somehow" just dropped. throughout this video, we're watching it climb the charts. at this moment they've just broken the top ten. as we sit here charting about charles trippy, his album is number three on the. >> they're very, very awesome, awesome, awesome. the record came out and the tumor shrinking, there's nothing but styles. ten seconds of awesome power and mayhem. >> was that a dummy driving it, though? >> it was. pretty awesome. >> now, this is sort of one that got away that got caught again. look at this tractor. look what they catch right there. >> oh, no! >> they pulled a car out but they didn't realize the car was attached to the trailer, which was attached to the boat. s

in the past most advanced lung cancer patients underwent chemotherapy, but by putting a small sample of ray's dna on this chip and running it through this machine doctors were able to pinpoint the best possible medicine for him. >> they can run not just one tube for one reaction for one gene, but one tube does actually 50 different genes of. >> reporter: dr. greg utterson says by looking for specific mutations in different genes doctors can better determine which drugs will work best for which patients because most lung cancer patients are diagnosed in later stages, getting the treatments right the first time being crucial. >> we've shown that if you bear that mutation, you do better with the pill than standard chemotherapy. >> reporter: it's working for ray who says more than anyone he appreciates doctors having an effective game plan for helping him tackle the billest challenge of his life. ed an -- biggest challenge of his life, andy ya ronnel, wusa9. >> there are now -- andrea roane, wusa9. >> there are now more options for treating lung cancer than ever before. one person of 15

loaded with psycho active thc, it was designed to help cancer patients control the side-effects of chemotherapy. >> we had no idea that we would delve into the realm of pediatric medication. >> reporter: kids don't get high but they do get well. >> if there is a rare form of epilepsy. before charlottes web he spent a decade seizing. >> by the age of five. zakai jackson had experienced 500,000 seizures. but in the year since he started on the marijuana oil extract wes seizure free. >> you're drawing your brother. >> pediatricianings who treetop acceptly are intrigued. but dr. christian wan to see more research. >> the effectiveness is defined by randomized placebo trials. those are still lacking to date. we have case reports. and because of case reports we should look into this further. >> for pam, marijuana is the last thing she woul would have imagined giving her child but now she's planning to saying it's a matter of saving her life. >> do we need to know the answers before we stop kids from dying? no. >> clinical trials on 30 patients will be presented to a national epilepsy conference next

i think it this sort of playing on tv radiation unit in a hospital or hospital unit or chemotherapy.rice tag. >> yeah, don't worry about the price tag. i thought it was ironic that a young woman would be singing a song and lecturing peers saying don't worry about the price tag. remember, at the heart of the affordable care act, obamacare is a provision called community rating which says in essence younger healthier workers shall pay a higher premium than they would otherwise be charged in order to subsidize the premiums paid by older, less healthy people. she is saying basically young people don't care that you are getting a raw deal that you are going to have to pick up a bigger tab than you would if the market were not so regulated by obama care. older, less healthy and may have a less healthy life lifestyle. the second thing they have got me on this is that this woman talked about fairness, this was -- it's all about being fair. well, it ought to be about allowing people, giving people access to quality healthcare. not about, quote, fairness. this once again is this mantra of the

but after a period of success thanks to radiation, chemotherapy and surgery, the cancer had returned. robin would not live to see this year's relay. >> bake sale, bake sale. cookies, brown knees. bake sale. >> beginning the day after her mother's day, kenna has thrown herself, all 50 pounds of it into this year's event. she says team reader kids has raised the most because they work the hardest. and are the cutest. >> both were in evidence at a recent bake sale outside their neighborhood safe way. the more than $700 this event pulled in are on top of the more than $16,000 kenna's team has raised. >> evening she's amazing. i seriously am just amazed that at 7 years old, she gets it and she knows how to drive towards a goal and she's making it happen. she's an inspiration to her father. she says/ironically it's been his daughters who set the for life without their mom. >> it's almost like it neutralizes my pain. if they can handle it as well as they are, i should be too. >> do keep busy, don't feel sorry for yourself, and above all, make sure you find at least some good in something bad

if this pans out, then finally, we can use the technology to deliver the chemotherapy. >> men are stupid, sperm are stupid. >> drugs, to deliver drugs and cancer treatments and such through the nano technology to the source could probably protect healthy cells, too. >> that's exactly right. it's a very specific target delivery. >> it's available now? >> it's all part of the experiment. >> nano technology. >> very exciting. >> coming up, something that really affects all of us? bad with names. don't remember where you put your car keys? leave your coffee in the other room, you're like, where is it? coming up, "should i worry." the doctors will talk about memory lapses. >>> back now for a sunday house call and our segment, should i worry? every sunday, we talk about something that worries us. i keep forgetting people's names and where i put my car keys. should i worry? these senior moments keep on growing and get more. >> what people are worried about out there is alzheimer's. certainly we're having an epidemic. but that may not be what it is. it could be stress, anxiety, depression that's

. >> monica's cancer is in remission but she's still going through chemotherapy. >>> a labrador retriever saved its blind owner from an oncoming subway train. >> reporter: 61 cecil williams gets around with the help of his labrador retriever. >> he's always looking out for me. >> reporter: on tuesday orlando went above and beyond the call of duty when williams lost consciousness on the platform of a subway station. williams fell in front of an oncoming train and the dog went with him. the engineer stopped the train but several cars passed over them. amazingly williams suffered only minor injuries. >> the first time you were reunited with the dog, what was that like for you? >> you know, when he came back to me, i was, i was glad to see him, and i'm glad that he wasn't even hurt. >> reporter: orlando turns 11 next month and will retire as a seeing eye dog. williams is getting a new service dog and couldn't afford to keep orlando as a pet until now. >> as of this morning all of those expenses have been covered through anonymous donations. >> reporter: that means orlando can enjoy his senior

the treatment is supposed to help patients suffering from nausea after chemotherapy, the shares droppedto $28.37. >>> and a completely different story for united therapeutic, shares went up over 30% to $114.51. >>> here is something that may not be on your christmas wish list just yet, but it is showing up on a lot more of them this year, 3-d printers for the home or office. just how popular these amazing devices are. >> reporter: will 3-d printers be a hot gift this year? the president, jennifer lawton, thinks they will be. >> they are walking out with a 3-d printer. >> reporter: the printing company that acquired the company this year opening two stores in boston, and greenwich, the head of the holidays. the personal 3-d printing market is still small, only about 36,000 units sold in 2012, accounting for just 6% of total sales for the printing 3-d industry. analysts say bringing in the consumers is crucial. >> they have to innovative and innovative with products that appeal to consumers. but go to market is important, because this is a new market. so what kind of objects are consumers

. >>> "gma's" amy robach back on the air after her double mastectomy and opening up about her chemotherapy> i have four months of chemo. i will take it hour by hour. >>> amanda bynes out of rehab. is she planning a new career? >>> billions of bulbs, trees, miles of lights. >> you can see my house from space. >> tv's extreme christmas wars. the light fight is on. >> i've got thousands of lights i don't even use. i'm not throwing them away. you've lost your mind. >>> bradley cooper's '70s perm. jennifer lawrence falling down drunk. we're first ndbehi the scenes of "american hustle." >>> and -- "e.t.'s" britney blowout tackles the rumors. >> the craziest rumor i ever read about myself was probably that i died. >>> now, "entertainment tonight," the worldwide leader in entertainment news. >> our paul walker death investigation uncovers new evidence about how fast he was traveling before impact. hi, everybody. welcome to "entertainment tonight." nancy o'dell is off. this video you have never seen before. and it provides the first

mother robin had been diagnosed with cancer but after a period of success, thanks to raid yag, chemotherapynd surgery, the cancer had returned. robin would not live to see this year's relay. >> bake sale! bake sale! cookies, brownies, bake sale! >> beginning the day after her mother's death, though, kenna has thrown herself, all 50 pounds of it, into this year's event. kenna says team reeder kids has raised the most because they work the hardest. >> bake sale! >> and are the cutest. both were in evidence at a recent bake sale outside their neighborhood safeway. the more than $700 this event pulled in are on top of the more than $16,000 ken na's team has raised. >> i think she's amazing. i seriously am just amazed that at 7 years old she gets it and she knows how to drive towards a goal and she's making it happen. >> kenna has not just been an inspiration to other fund-raisers. she's an inspiration to her father. he says ironically it's been his daughters who have set the tone for life without mom. >> it's almost like it neutralizes my pain because i go, if they can handle it as well as they

>> reporter: at first chemotherapy helped, but then the cancer aim back with a vengeance. this time an even nastier strain. >> i am dying. i'm living on transfusions at that point, and you can't live on transfusions forever. >> reporter: his time running out bob decided on a hail mary a radical new approach at the university of pennsylvania. >> to even be eligible for the protocol you have to have no hope left. in bob's case he probably had five pounds of tumor at a time we treated him in his bone marrow and places like his spleen and other organs. >> reporter: they're treating leukemia in a revolutionary away. taking white blood cells from the sickest patients and engineering them to attack cancer. they do this by infusing the t-cells with forms of the a.i.d.s. virus, they are mutated so they cannot continue the disease. just a few weeks later he had his bone marrow tested. >> there was no more leukemia. >> bob is not alone. in the penn trials 59 adults and children have been treated for end stage leukemia. 31 experienced complete remissions. of those only six have seen t

surgery, transplantation and chemotherapy are more dangerous. new drugs are urgently needed. federal agency is in charge of combating resistance. lack of coordination and at accountability may be a part of the problem. in previous shows we have spoken with senior fda officials, members of congress and biotech companies. today we will interview the head of the federal agency responsible for coordinating the nation's response. >> dr. tom frieden joins us from the centers for disease control in atlanta, georgia. dr. frieden, how big is the problem of antibiotics resistance? >> we're seeing a big increase in antimicrobial resistance. we put