Four years after it first opened its doors, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital made the medical community hold its collective breath.
Five children — each with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and each in remission from the then-deadly disease — were taken off therapy. The decision was radical and wrought with uncertainty.
Nothing of the like had ever been tried. ALL defeated almost everyone it attacked.
But Pat, 59, is happy that the doctors at St. Jude had the courage to try such an unconventional approach.
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