David Fajgenbaum
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2 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 26 Nov
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And his doctors had tried everything the doctors knew to try for this rare cancer.
And his girlfriend, Tara, reached out to my team on a Friday.
Joseph was getting ready to be transferred to hospice care on that Monday because nothing was working.
And I was able to get in touch with his doctor on that Saturday and recommend three drugs that were made for multiple myeloma, which is a cancer that's similar to poem syndrome.
But those drugs are not used for poems.
And the doctor and I had a long discussion.
And there were a lot of debates about whether he could tolerate these medicines and whether we should sort of give this last Hail Mary effort.
And the doctor decided to try the medicines.
And amazingly, Joseph responded incredibly well about
by that Thursday, he was out of the ICU.
And now it's been over a year.
It's almost a year and a half now.
He's been in remission.
These drugs were always there.
They were just made for a different disease.
A disease actually is very similar to the disease that he has.
And it's just been so special to see patients like Joseph get their lives back.
Joseph and Tara, a year and a half ago, were
planning Joseph's funeral.
Now they're planning their wedding together.
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