Treating Kids' Cancer With Science And A Pocket Full Of Hope |
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associated audio     My remarkable visit with him, a part of my
series, "Joe's Big Idea," begins on the top floor of Seattle
Children's Hospital. It's a Wednesday, pediatric tumor clinic
day, and Olson is zipping down the hall while I try to keep up.
We enter a small, windowless room where the pediatric cancer
team gathers before seeing patients.  Olson checks the chart of
Carver Faull, a 12-year-old boy with a medulloblastoma, the most
common type of pediatric brain cancer. Carver had surgery about
15 months earlier to remove his tumor. He's just had an MRI
scan.  "This is his first brain scan after his therapy, and it's
always a nerve-wracking one for the families to be wondering
what it's going to look like," Olson says.  Olson studies the
scan for a few seconds, then heads down the hall and walks into
an examining room. That's