{"id":11139,"date":"2009-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cancerresearch.org\/media-room\/immune-response-linked-to-cancer-miracles-says-forbes-magazine-cover-story\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T05:20:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T05:20:21","slug":"immune-response-linked-to-cancer-miracles-forbes","status":"publish","type":"cri_news","link":"https:\/\/www.cancerresearch.org\/es\/media-room\/immune-response-linked-to-cancer-miracles-forbes","title":{"rendered":"Immune Response Linked to &#8216;Cancer Miracles&#8217; Says Forbes Magazine Cover Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sharon Belvin, the stage IV metastatic melanoma survivor given only months to live who\u00a0then recovered completely\u00a0after treatment with an immune modulator called anti-CTLA-4, is featured on the cover of the March 2, 2009, issue of <em>Forbes<\/em> magazine. Her story is told in a feature\u00a0article penned by author Robert Langreth titled, \u00ab<a title=\"Cancer Miracles: Why Do Some People Beat the Odds?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2009\/0302\/074_cancer_miracles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cancer Miracles: Why Do Some People Beat the Odds?<\/a>\u00bb In the article, Langreth shares the stories of several cancer patients diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer,\u00a0late-stage melanoma,\u00a0and metastatic breast cancer, and how treatment with immunotherapies pulled them back from the brink of death. Such recoveries, Langreth writes, though atypical, offer crucial clues to fighting cancer. The story offers a compelling case for the hope of cancer immunotherapy and the necessity to continue pressing forward with out efforts to understand the immune system and its relationship to cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"The article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2009\/0302\/074_cancer_miracles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The article<\/a> reads as a veritable <em>Who&#8217;s Who<\/em> of Cancer Research Institute investigators, biotech&nbsp;and pharmaceutical partners, and clinical trial patients, including among others:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sharon Belvin, the featured melanoma patient, whose story of remarkable recovery CRI featured in its 2006 annual report; at CRI&#8217;s 2007 annual awards dinner, Sharon spoke before the gathered attendees, sharing her gripping story of how she came so close to death only to be pulled back after being treated with the immune-modulator, anti-CTLA-4, which works by blocking the immune system&#8217;s regulatory, or braking, mechanisms.<\/li><li>Jedd Wolchok, Sharon&#8217;s treating physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who administered the anti-CTLA-4, is a CRI Scientific Advisory Council member, a member of the CRI\/LICR Cancer Vaccine Collaborative Coordinating Committee, and a CRI-supported clinical investigator who has lectured at CRI symposia and other educational events<\/li><li>James Allison, though not specifically mentioned in the article, discovered the CTLA-4 receptor and worked with Medarex and Bristol-Myers Squibb to develop the anti-CTLA-4 antibody therapy that saved Sharon&#8217;s life. He has also been instrumental in brokering an agreement&nbsp;between the CRI\/LICR Cancer Vaccine Collaborative and Bristol-Myers Squibb that provides anti-CTLA-4 to Collaborative researchers for use in their cancer vaccine clinical trials.<\/li><li>William Coley, the Father of Cancer Immunotherapy who launched the first clinical studies of cancer immunotherapy in the late 1800s; his daughter,&nbsp;Helen Coley Nauts, founded the Cancer Research Institute.<\/li><li>Robert Schreiber, an immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine, whose work on cancer equilibrium and the \u00abThree Es of Cancer Immuno-Editing\u00bb was featured in CRI&#8217;s 2008 annual report, is an associate director of the CRI Scientific Advisory Council and a CRI-funded investigator and predoctoral tumor immunology training program head.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editorial commentary from CRI<\/strong><br>CRI executive director Jill O&#8217;Donnell-Tormey, PhD, sent a response to the editors of <em>Forbes<\/em> (<a title=\"Forbes Magazine's Cancer Miracles a CRI Success\" href=\"\/news\/2009\/February\/CRI-Responds-to-Forbes-Magazine-Cancer-Miracles\">read it here<\/a>) to show not only how intricately linked the Cancer Research Institute is to these &#8216;cancer miracles&#8217; that are coming from the field of tumor immunology, but also to encourage journalists covering this topic to remember the nonprofit health research funding organizations like CRI who play a crucial role in making these research advances possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong><br>Brian Brewer, Director of Communications<br>Cancer Research Institute<br>(212) 688-7515 or <a href=\"mailto:bbrewer@cancerresearch.org\">bbrewer@cancerresearch.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article published in Forbes Magazine shares the stories of several cancer patients and how treatment with immunotherapies pulled them back from the brink of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3567,"template":"","tags":[397],"resource_cancer_types":[],"resource_patient_age":[],"resource_cancer_stage":[],"resource_treatment_type":[],"resource_treatment_status":[],"class_list":["post-11139","cri_news","type-cri_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-in-the-news-es"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Immune Response Linked to &#039;Cancer Miracles&#039; 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