we believe the preliminary data and non-hod kgkin'snon-hodgkin' >> i'm familiar with bob because he's gene and everyone gets together and says this drug can work with that drug. this is a small community. are you so-called networking with other guys to say listen, you ought to try our drug in congestion with your drug. >> yeah, the good news for us has been that the investigator, the physician community has actually gotten very excited about selling it. you may note we have over 20 clinical trials that have started or are about to start where we have another 20 or 30 sta about to start and this is physician out reach and we meet them in other meetings and people cold e-mail or call us to get us to agree with them that we can try to combine it with other different kinds of therapy because we are the only company to date that has developed this kind of a new therapy. >> well, it is a brilliant idea to have the drugs commit suicide -- the cancer cells to commit suicide instead of target bombing the whole body. ceo you've got a terrific set of products, thank you so much for being on the

now chemotherapy, today in 2014, more than 90% of patients with hodgkin's lymphoma are cured.he second advance was a vaccine approved to prevent cervical cancer. this vaccine against the hpv virus not only allows for treatment and cures for cervical cancer, but other cancers including head and neck cancers. and anal cancer. so the advance in presenting cervical cancer. number three, targeted drug transformations. targeted drug transformations with the fact of cure for rare leukemia, in 2001. the fda approval of the drug means that patients who universally die from this leukemia are now cured of that disease. and within that drug, not only has it been useful in the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia, but other diseases now have much better prognosis. and the idea of targeted drugs which have fewer than the trans standard chemotherapy, these patients do not suffer as much. so very important. and number four was the advance for the cure of testicular cancer. prior to 1977, when dr. lawrence einhorn put forth his regiment for treating testicular cancer almost all patients w

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. >> i was diagnosed with non-hodgkin's lymphoma 15 years ago. just seeing a smile on a kid's face is worth it. >> highlanders america is based in staten island. usually they give donations to a hospital in manhattan, but this year they decided to come to philadelphia for personal reasons. we're glad they did. >> our weather is going to be cold, but we're actually going to warm into the 60s by wednesday. which is funny because it is the first official couple of days of winter. there's a live look at camelback mountain. that is the place to be this weekend. 42 degrees. so cold conditions expected for your last-minute shopping. monday, we are in the mid 40s. 50s by tuesday. and then rain by wednesday. >> the fact that it says 60 on that seven-day, i'll take that rain. >> it will feel more like christmas thursday. >> have a good weekend. happy holidays. >>> this sunday -- >> we can fot have -- we cannot have a society in which dictators start to impose dictators' censorship in the united states. >> has a dangerous precedent been set by sony? >>> and

. >> i was diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma. he underwent treatment like a trooper. his mother anna said he never complained even when he was in pain. he wouldn't say but they knew because of his heart rate. one hardest parts chemotherapy for ryan was he was two weak to play the sports he loved. he would literally sleep in bed with glove in his hand. a ball. and it would break my heart. so ryan tried out art which he could do in his hospital bed. one night he started drawing when he was too anxious to sleep his mom woke next morning she couldn't believe what she saw. ryan this is really good. but you really didn't believe her i thought at that was like a mom instinct. ryan's potential was obvious. he was introduced to the art therapist gabby at the maria childrens's hospital where he was being treated. >> drawing and painting gave ryan an outlet for his feeling and helped with his recovery. i felt like, i had monsters inside me like the chemo monsters. >> and you know i just drew at lot of color because, you know, that, different sets of chemo and weird looking color

watch this morning, doctors are calling new experimental cancer drug a breakthrough therapy for hodgkin's lymphoma patient. researchers at the dana farber cancer institute found the i am uno therapy drug helped 87% of patient sends their cancer in remission. >> new study shows doctors can use text messages to help their patients remember to take their medications. london researchers offered text reminds tow patients taking blood pressure and cholesterol drugsment found text messages prevented one in six from forget being their medication. >>> 4:43, wow, feels like the holidays are here. these chilly temperatures. >> yes, exactly, if that's what you take out of this good for you polly anna. because -- >> oh, common. >> for the rest every us it is really colds outside. we will be finding very wet weather as well. let's take a look see what we have out there at this point. >> thanks, carol. >> we've got nice looking shot, center city philadelphia. skies look just fine. they're not going to forever. we do find more and more clouds coming in. speaking of that, on cue, we take a look at storm s

who knows, it may be more than just a lymphoma or hodgkins story. it may help in other cancers, which would be good. >>> let's get a check on the markets this morning. as we mentioned, you're looking at the markets setting on new highs for the dow and the s&p 500. this morning there are some red arrows. you can see right now the dow futures are down by 37 points. s&p futures down by close to 5 points. the nasdaq futures are down as well. the nasdaq ended the week after six weeks of gapes last week so it's looking to start a new record this week. we'll see what happens. in early trading in europe, there were decent numbers out of germany to show the economy is not as bad as we had expected. maybe things were improving a little bit, but still red arrows there as well with the dax down .40%. the cac in france is down by.60%. and the ftse in london down by .70%. the nikkei closing higher despite the news that showed that the gdp numbers were worse than we even expected coming out of japan. the hang seng also closed slightly higher with the shanghai clos

now chemotherapy, today in 2014, more than 90% of patients with hodgkin's lymphoma are cured.he second advance was a vaccine approved to prevent cervical cancer. this vaccine against the hpv virus not only allows for treatment and cures for cervical cancer, but other cancers including head and neck cancers. and anal cancer. so the advance in presenting cervical cancer. number three, targeted drug transformations. targeted drug transformations with the fact of cure for rare leukemia, in 2001. the fda approval of the drug means that patients who universally die from this leukemia are now cured of that disease. and within that drug, not only has it been useful in the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia, but other diseases now have much better prognosis. and the idea of targeted drugs which have fewer than the trans chemotherapy, these patients do not suffer as much. so very important. a number for was the advance for the cure of testicular cancer. prior to 1977, when dr. lawrence einhorn put forth his regiment for treating testicular cancer, almost all patients with testicu

. >> alexander survived hodgkins lymphoma as a child and now she's battling breast cancer.oping somebody does the right thing and returns that back. the moral lift that she gets -- >> absolutely. having family members that battle that disease, let's hope somebody does the right thing and gets that bag back to her. >> here's a live look at san jose downtown. the rest of that view is starting to come to life as the sun should be up soon. christina was saying we're coming um actually on the winter solstice, which means the days are longer -- excuse me, shorter, more darkness. don't let me do any more explanation of what's going on seasonally. >> just join us when we come back in a bit. every day is a new opportunity to help make life better right here in san francisco. whether it's helping local businesses like the fruitguys grow and prosper, supporting nonprofits like juma ventures as they fulfill their mission or helping neighborhoods like the tenderloin become vibrant communities. if there's a way to help the people of san francisco thrive and succeed, we'll find it. that's

. >> he said, you have hodgkins lymphoma which is a form of cancer.is words beyond after him saying that it was cancer. >> so what was going through your mind at that point? >> at that point i was only thinking of what i had seen sonny go through. i watched my friend die. and she died a horrible slow and painful death. and i just thought, oh, my god, that's what i can expect. that's what's waiting for me. i started to deteriorate as well. the cancer started to spread. i was like a skeleton with skin, that was it. because i weighed about 80, 85 pounds. and i had these big open skin lesions, one here on my neck, one under my arm. i had tumors, some of them the size of lemons all throughout my lymphatic system. my muscles in my legs completely deteriorated. but february 6, 2006, i was so tired of fighting to stay alive. i remember consciously thinking that it's just not worth it anymore. my muscles, like in my legs, had completely deteriorated. even death can't be worse than this. so i just let go. my husband tells me the following morning i didn't wake

. >> i was diagnosed with non-hodgkin's lymphoma 15 years ago and i've been doing this for the last 14 years. just seeing a smile on a kid's face is worth it. >> high landers america is based in staten island. usually they give donations to a hospital in manhattan. >>> a disturbing new trend is hitting the streets all across the country. guns made to be untraceable. we'll have that story next. >>> and it has been five months since the crash of the malaysia airlines flight in ukraine. now investigators are sharing new information with the families of the victims. >>> atf agents say they're concerned about a new national trend, guns that are intentionally made as untraceable and then sold to gangs and drug dealers. a receiver must have a serial number, but other parts of a gun can be legally bought on the internet and people are able to crank out these so-called ghost guns. one former gang member says the streets are full of these kinds of weapons for sale. >> they're very easy to come by. these guns are used basically so that they are untraceable to commit crimes for murders, robberies,

. >> i was diagnosed with non-hodgkin's lymphoma 15 years ago, and i've been doing this for the last 14 years. just seeing a smile on a kid's face is worth it. >> high landers america is based in staten island. usually they give donations to a hospital in manhattan. >>> a police department in mopt governor romneyry county is giving back to the community despite their own troubleown tr. just last month, the police department lost half its force to layoffs because the township is dealing with financial trouble. >>> now that cuba and the u.s. have announced improved relations, some cubans are hoping to get more american dollars, but there's one thing the country is not willing to do. we'll explain. >>> plus, former heavyweight boxing champion mohamed ali is in the hospital batting pneumonia. we'll have the details on his prognosis. behold, the subway steak, egg white and cheese: start your morning off right with juicy, sizzly steak, stacked high with protein-packed egg whites, melty cheese and whatever else you love, like jalapeños or spinach - all on warm, toasty flatbread. subway. eat

we're excited and we have approval for patients about three years ago for patients with relapsed hodgkins lymphoma and there was never a drug for them and our goal has been to treat those patients but -- and those are third line patients and had to have failed two prior regimens and then front line and second line and we have done work and presented that the conference. in fact, this morning we presented data second line showing an 84% complete remission rate and front line a 96% complete remission rate with no deaths at three years and very excited to go and treat the earlier stage patients. we're also very pleased there are other drugs such as oncology drugs that can help patients. we are about patients and treetding patients. my whole career is about that so i'm thrilled there are other drugs to help patients and we think it is the center focus of hodgkins lymphoma and combining them well and you will see in the future. >> do you think, though, with the market's reaction is it missing in some ways the opportunity that it has? you're testing in it a lot of other indications. >> yeah. we

she suffered hodgkin's lymphoma as a child and is now battling breast cancer. >> there are gifts in,ople give you. >> it's all comfort stuff. it's stuff that she uses. she sits there and takes it. it's completely useless to the people that took it. >> reporter: inside her favorite blanket, an ipad filled with photos, music and videos. medication, including one that helps with pain during chemotherapy, and her journal. >> everybody has their chemo bag. it's something that when you start the program, they give you a list saying this is what you should have in your bag. this is what we recommend you bring to help you through the day. >> reporter: her boyfriend is checking to see if they can track the stolen ipad. >> this is the find my iphone app. and basically, i'm waiting for that ipad to light up. >> reporter: he says he knows the chances of recovering the items is slim but hoped for the best. >> if family members end up knowing these dirtbags that took these things and have some sort of conscience and don't want that kind of karma coming their way, maybe you can turn them in. >> rep

the experimental drug has been designated break through therapy for hodgkin's lymphoma patient. researchers at dana farber cancer institute found the immuno therapy drug helped 87% of patient get to remission. >>> and, using technology to help patients remember to take their medication. researchers texted participant of stud toy reminds them to take their blood pressure and cholesterol drugs. they found text messages prevented one in six from forgetting their medications. >>> well, happening today, another hepatitis-a vaccination clinic in hamilton township, new jersey. >> it will take place later on, officials held the first clinic last week after learning worker at rosa's restaurant in mercer county contracted the that virus and may have been contaminating customer foods for weeks. today's clinic is he township division of health building on greenwood avenue. it is important to note, it is only open to hamilton township residents. >> coming up in the next half hour every "eyewitness news", following couple every breaking news stories, body found at new jersey hotel. >> and phi