The circumstances were awful, but I am very glad my wife and I got involved with Team David to help out Paul, and his family. As well as all the patients at St Jude.
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” – Charles Dickens
A few weeks back, Julie received a phone call from St. Jude. The call was about a study that David had participated in and they wanted to share some of the results with us. The study has been underway since 2010 and continues today. The Pediatric Cancer Genome Project created the Cancer Predisposition Program which helps to evaluate and care for children who are at increased genetic risk for cancer. David’s DNA was tested. We thought long and hard about what we wanted to know from the outcome of this study…did we want to know if David’s DNA was defective? Did we want to know if we carried some type of defect or worse, had we unknowingly passed…
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