Cancer Survivor Steve Holl at his Daughter Eryn's Wedding

The vaccine that Dr. Jeffrey N. Bruce from the Brain Tumor Center told us about earlier this year (Could There Soon Be A Vaccine Against Brain Cancer?) recently hit the spotlight in Hollywood and all for a good cause.

On September 10th, CNN Health published the story of Steve Holl who, thanks to the vaccine, survived a deadly form of brain cancer and was able to dance at his daughter Eryn’s wedding (Read the story on CNN Health: Experimental vaccine gives father of the bride precious time).

Later that night, the story was aired as part of a huge Hollywood Charity Telecast called  Stand Up 2 Cancer.  This celebrity studded event featured video about Mr. Holl as well as an explanation of how the vaccine works by Dr. Andrew Parsa.*

You can watch this footage at about the 51 minute point of the hour-long Stand Up 2 Cancer Telecast.  Standup2cancer.org later reported that they received more than 80 million dollars in pledges toward cancer research.

*The trial that Dr. Bruce is running here in our department is part of a larger multi-center trial headed by Dr. Parsa out of the University of California, San Francisco.

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