Finding the cure: Immunotherapy offers hope to children battling cancer
talks to two leading doctors who are driven to find targeted therapies with minimum long-term toxicities to treat childhood cancer.
HOW quickly it all happened, how rapid it was —that’s what stayed with Professor Owen Smith all these years. His nine-year-old cousin, Derek Reid, taken in 1966 to a Dublin paediatric hospital, nursed in a back room, died three weeks later of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
