the chemo nurses i saw at memorial sloan kettering became my friends., katie hambright and mary shannon mcguiness, understood where i was coming from. >> i realize that my day ends and your day never ends with cancer. you go home with it. you're probably constantly thinking about it. whereas i go home and i can go for a run or do something with my friends and try to get it off my mind, where you guys live and breathe it every single day. >> as the snow fell outside our apartment overlooking central park the view from my living room changed, cancer got in the way. >> i used to love to go in there and have a fire, and have a drink, and pick off a history book. and then when i was diagnosed, i'd go in there, and this screen would come down. and the screen would be cancer. and that's how i saw the world, was through the prism of cancer. and until you get it, you can't understand that. that winter, my family was experiencing what millions of other families are going through every day dealing with the fear, anxiety, the daily realities of a cancer fight some

but you can go online to the mayo clinic for example, or the clevelanddana farber or sloan-ketterings and canvass where you live the medical community and say who knows something about this who can help me out with this i need a friend quite honestly. it is easy for me to say because i had those resources, but i found a number of people -- and there is networking that goes on i got multiple myeloma, i heard from everyone in america who had multiple myeloma, that's not unusual. that's a good thing. >> we didn't have that. 15 years ago you wouldn't have had that. >> 15 years ago i probably would have died. there is multiple myeloma research foundation kathie gusty, who knows more about this because she's a survivor of it. you can go online there and find out what is happening. but the big bottom line is take charge of your case. be involved. and don't -- try not to the little whiney -- reserve it for the big stuff. >> what do you mean by that the whineyness? >> what i mean by the whineyness if you go in and say, i heard from somebody today and you're not doing that, some physicians are

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. >> sreenivasan: at the memorial sloan kettering cancer center mark kris, a thoracic oncologist, is leading a team that is teaching watson how to diagnose cancer. >> we needed some way to help doctors deal with the deluge of information that's available now. >> sreenivasan: watson is being trained to sort through reams of information about the patient the most current medical research, and get it to the doctor to help make a decision, all at a pace beyond humans. >> our idea here though is that this system is going to be like what we call a "learned colleague." >> sreenivasan: a colleague that can assist with instant diagnoses and recommended courses of treatment. the recommendations are highly personalized based on a patient's unique genetic make- up. >> the person i'm asking about is a 55-year-old man who already has had surgery for his lung cancer. it was discovered that this cancer had spread to lymph glands that were nearby. the first thing this system does is it shows all the different treatments that are recommended. now i ask what kind of chemo to give and it points to a che

and in fact when i came back to new york to sloan-kettering, the senior staff said you'll be up and walkingyou'll be your old self again. i went from 190 miles per hour to five miles per hour. just that year alone. i had been in africa and had been bicycling across south america. and i'd been fishing all over montana with this pesky backache that turned out to be cancer. i went as i say, to a screeching halt and a considerable amount of pain. i was blessed by having meredith who is a take-charge person in these circumstances, and my oldest daughter is a very accomplished emergency room doctor. and she moved right in and became a member of the team. that's another thing i say to families. if you know someone's a doctor who has medical expertise, get them on your side. they can be notestakers, they can be -- note-takers, they can be interpreters and do additional research for you. in jennifer's case, at the mayo clinic and sloan, the primary team treating me would say, god, she's great. it's just so helpful because for one thing, she could tell them what was going on with me when i didn't. sh

reports genetic testing on tumors is starting to become the norm in the big cancer hospitals, like sloan kettering, all incoming patients have their tumors sequenced. this is all possible because of extraordinary achievement by a great many individuals on sequencing the human genome, none more important than dr. collins who is here today. we are grateful for that. today we want to discuss what national institutes of health and private industry are doing in precision medicine, how the food and drug administration will regulate those innovations, how electronic health records can effect the ability to innovate and what this means for the american patient in the health care system. it is one of the most exciting new frontiers in medicine. senator murray and i are working on initiative to ensure our federal agencies are equipped to review medical products and processes produced by this kind of cutting edge medicine so american patients aren't waiting on the sidelines because regulatory science can't keep up. our innovation initiative is not just about precision medicine but precision medicine is an im

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honest with your doctor there are a lot of sites now, you can go to the mayo clinic dana car ver, sloan ketteringm doing better thank you. >> you will see more tonight on dateline 10:00, 9:00 central. >>> up next a conspiracy do kids care more about the grades or learning. first, this is "today" on nbc. we're back at 8:39 with an eye opener for parents and teens. according to a new princeton review survey when it comes to getting into college, students feel learning is less important than getting good grades. katie o'brien and hunt you are moss are contributors to the princeton review and co-authors of the straight a conspiracy. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. thank you for having us. >> this is really interesting. we'll put our first results up on the board here 90% of students said getting good grades are important. >> okay. i'll buy it. >> 6% said they care about whether they are learning. >> there is why we were so happy to collaborate on this study. it takes some of the focus off just grades an test scores and really on to how are students thinking and feeling on a daily basis?

dana farber sloan kettering to find out more about the kind of cancer you have. >> happy to see you lookingspecial tonight. >>> do your kids care more about getting the grades or learning. >>> first, this is "today" on nbc. e more about the grades or learning. first, this is "today" on nbc. (music) hey! let me help with that. oh, thank you! (music) introducing the one-and-only volkswagen golf sportwagen. the sportier utility vehicle. >>> back with an eye-opener with parents and teens. according to a princeton review survey when it comes to getting into college students feel learning is actually less important than getting good grades. katie o'brien and hunter mots are contributors to the princeton review. good morning to both of you. this is very very interesting. we'll put our first results on the board. 90% of students said getting good grades is important. >> i'll buy it. >> only 6% say they care about whether they're learning. >> this is why we were so excited to collaborate with the princeton review on this study. it takes some of the focus off just grades and test scores and really on