As part of a clinical trial, David Tracy received an experimental drug for BPDCN, a rare blood cancer. The drug is now part of standard therapy for the disease, and the initial lesions on Tracy’s back and chest are mostly gone or fading.
Krista Lawrence likes to joke with her two adult children that they don’t need to get married and have their own kids just because she has metastatic breast cancer. In fact, thanks to her excellent response to a clinical trial at the Susan F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers at Dana-Farber, Lawrence is enjoying each day with her incurable disease—and not worrying about an unpredictable future.
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