Moving on, fighting on

Dr. Leisha Emens dreads the calls she has been getting lately. The news is rarely good. "A lot of people are dying right now. It's to be expected. These people have an incurable disease," Emens says in late August, as she wraps up her early work running clinical trials of an experimental breast cancer vaccine.

By Stephanie Desmon | stephanie.desmon@baltsun.com

October 17, 2008