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...Rick Murdock says he did not mean to put pressure on his employees, but his life hung in the balance. At 49, the deceptively tanned and fit executive had just received the kind of diagnosis that is a hypochondriac's nightmare: a rare case of advanced mantle-cell lymphoma. Doctors told him the average life expectancy for the disease was 30 months, and indeed, his initial round of conventional chemotherapy was unsuccessful. But in a coincidence that was both ironic and edifying, CellPro scientists were experimenting with a new way to boost the success rate of the very operation recommended...
...name of public health or safety and issue a license. Baye says the CellPro case perfectly illustrates the law's intent: to get new treatments to the people who need them. It may not work, since the law has never been invoked, but neither had anyone ever undergone Murdock's treatment before. And so far the prognosis is good...
...June 17, 1996, with Murdock set up on the fifth floor of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, the trial began. About four hours later, the patient went home, a catheter in his chest, to await the verdict. Tarnowski called that night to tell him that the purging had finally worked. Then began some two months of grueling radiation, chemotherapy and the new, improved bone-marrow transplant...
Almost a year later, Murdock shows no signs of cancer. He is back home, sailing with his sons and watching the salmon swim in a creek a mile from his house. He is too savvy to declare himself cured--that determination could take three years--but he is ready for battle, both to save his company and to get the new device into doctors' hands. CellPro lost the latest round in its patent fight with competitors in federal court in April, and in a month a judge could issue a ruling preventing CellPro from selling its product to new customers...
...finding is relatively easy; Ray Murdock (James Earl Jones) is a policeman in Chicago. Making peace is another matter; Ray knows how his mother died, was in fact present on that terrible night. Forgiving the white man who seduced her and the half brother whose breech birth killed her is not in his heart. Ray has hidden his long-denied anger beneath a smoothly affable manner. Earl is hiding his more recent astonishment under stony taciturnity. But big-city circumstances force him to take refuge in Ray's home, where his blind, wise, straight-talking aunt (Irma P. Hall) maneuvers...