Sun Special Report: The Trial of Their Lives
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Peggy Murphy, 58, dies of breast cancer
Pa. woman took part in Hopkins drug trial
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Inspired by vaccine trial, cancer patient gives back
A patient in an experimental breast cancer vaccine trial, one that was the subject of a series in The Baltimore Sun, has raised more than $14,000 to go toward that research. She presented the check Friday to the doctor overseeing the study. Darby Steadman, a Severna Park mother of two who received...
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The trial of their lives
A Hopkins doctor's vaccine offers a hope of survival for four women with terminal breast cancer
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Elusive cure
For nearly a decade, Dr. Leisha Emens has been driven to develop a vaccine to stop breast cancer
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It's not working
Peggy Murphy put her faith in an experimental breast cancer vaccine, only to be let down
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The job of getting well
Mom endures cancer treatment in hopes daughter won't have to
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'Leisha's Girls' come together
Breast cancer patients want more information than doctor can provide
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Moving on, fighting on
Patients sustained by hope; doctor readies next study of cancer vaccine
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The characters: Dr. Emens and her patients
Sun Special Report: The Trial of Their Lives The doctor Dr. Leisha Emens, 46, an oncologist and researcher at Johns Hopkins University, where she has worked for nearly a decade. She is the principal investigator on two small clinical trials of an experimental breast cancer vaccine she developed....