have been a part of this.
i was up at nih amendment the
gentleman named john dean from
south carolina.
he came with kidney cancer in
1992.
like his father and sister he
had a rare hereditary can't
there with the mutation called
the mbt mutation gene.
it causes tumors to continuously
grow.
since his first visit, he had to
have a slow kidney removed in on
the other kidney thieves had 96
termers removed.
thanks to precision medicine and
doctors at nih, they were able
to determine the genetic cause
of that particular cancer and
develop a treatment.
at first that meant managing
tumors.
but that was doing as they were
understanding how they were
growing and cause them to shrink
said they would need to be
removed.
eventually, don received a trial
drug that targeted the gene and
his timorous rank and now we are
at the point went en masse to