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[MUSIC PLAYING]
KATIE COURIC: Hey, Kami.
KAMI STEELE: Hi, it's so nice to meet you.
KATIE COURIC: So nice to meet you.
I'm so happy to see you.
Can I sit here?
KAMI STEELE: Absolutely, please.
KATIE COURIC: Look how cute you are.
I love your hair.
I know your husband, actually, like, my husband
died of colon cancer.
KAMI STEELE: Yes, yes, yes.
I was about three months from getting married to my husband
when I heard the news story about your husband passing
away.
And it just, it really touched my heart.
And you know, then you fast forward my life, literally
a year, and he was diagnosed.
And then five months later, he passed away at age 28.
You build up a resilience and a strength
from something like this.
KATIE COURIC: I know you remarried.
KAMI STEELE: I did.
KATIE COURIC: Had two daughters.
KAMI STEELE: Yes.
KATIE COURIC: And then you were diagnosed with melanoma.
KAMI STEELE: Right.
KATIE COURIC: You are being treated with immunotherapy?
KAMI STEELE: Yes.
KATIE COURIC: It's really revolutionary, isn't it?
DR. JOHN HEYMACH: Yeah, the immunotherapy
is really changing the way that we're treating cancer patients
across the board.
I think in a very short period of time,
chemotherapy is not going to be the first thing we go to.
This is already happening in melanoma, for example.
It's happening in lung cancer.
And we think sooner or later we'll
figure out how to make this happen across the board in all
the different cancers.
And what researchers have discovered
is if they can uncover that shield,
essentially take away the disguise that cancer is using,
then the immune system can recognize these cancers again
and start tackling it.
KATIE COURIC: What is the Moon Shots program exactly?
DR. RON DEPINHO: Well, the Moon Shots program
is a goal-oriented effort in which we
bring large multi-disciplinary teams together
that allow us to take discoveries and convert
those discoveries into new lifesaving medicines,
or new legislative policies to prevent cancer.
KATIE COURIC: You were diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.
Is that right?
HELEN LINDSEY: Yes.
I'm thanking God that I made it here.
Because they told me four months in the other state.
KATIE COURIC: Oh, I'm so glad you found this place and also,
this treatment.
HELEN LINDSEY: This treatment is unbelievable.
And I'm talking.
[LAUGHTER]
KATIE COURIC: You sure are, Helen.
HELEN LINDSEY: If I hadn't have come here,
I don't think I'd make it.
KATIE COURIC: You're an opera singer, I heard?
BRITTA FORTSON: Mhm.
KATIE COURIC: That's so cool.
Do you want to sing something for us?
KAMI STEELE: Oh yeah.
BRITTA FORTSON: I can.
(SINGING) Ave Maria gratia plena.
[APPLAUSE]
KAMI STEELE: Yay!
KATIE COURIC: Wow, that sounded great.
KAMI STEELE: This is truly a place of hope and healing.
It's an amazing place.
KATIE COURIC: This must be so incredible for you,
as a doctor, to see these really transformational changes
in the landscape.
DR. JOHN HEYMACH: Mhm.
It couldn't be more exciting in terms of the progress we're
making right now.
And I think the next 5 to 10 years
are going to be even more exciting with what's coming.