EDUCATION + RESEARCH
CATCHING UP WITH SOPHIE + TRACY RYAN BY ANTONIO DEROSE
UPDATES ON SOPHIE Sophie spent her first Christmas off chemo treatment since being a newborn! “We are finally off after six years,” her mother Tracy tells us, “She’s been stable for over a year now. It’s still in there, but currently it is stable and believed to be dead. Now, we have to continue to monitor it and do scans every two and a half to three months. We’re confident that before we ever get too many years away from where we are now that we’re going to have a therapeutic available for her that literally eradicates the disease completely, so we never have to worry about it again.” GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH “We’re hopeful to be ready to for planning our human trials in the next six months. The brain cancer discoveries that the team has made are astronomical. I can’t say exactly what level the results are at, but it’s exciting. It would be a nontoxic option for patients because it would be using cells that are naturally indigenous to your body. Everything we discovered thus far, we hope to have published by March 20th. Dr. Jewett has discovered cannabinoids are attacking cancer STEM cells, and chemotherapy and radiation can’t even do that. This cancer STEM cell discovery, Dr. Jewett is calling the biggest discovery in the history of cannabis research and one of the biggest findings this century in cancer research. Sophie has been the most exciting patient in this research because she has shown the highest level of NK cell function as compared to all of the healthy and sick patients Dr. Jewett has tested over the last 30 years.”
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