-My mom she's everything to me she's my
best friend I've never lived more than
two miles from her my whole life we hang
out together a lot and she is 83 you
know my life would be really different
without her I can't even think about I
can't even I just can't think about it I
just can't imagine it
-My name is Jackie Racer and I've been diagnosed with
stage-four lung cancer in October of
2008 I started chemotherapy at another
hospital and I went for a year and a
half and they told me that they had done
all they could for me and for me to call
hospice and he said that I had three to
six months to live
and then Nancy got this name of Dr. Ou.
-When we contacted him we didn't realize
there was a trial going on it couldn't
have been more meant to be he was so
excited and said your mother fits the
criteria for this we want to see her in
the clinic tomorrow now first to be
honest my mom was a little skeptical
because she had a really hard time with traditional chemo
-I was just completely drained
-I mean she couldn't get from you
know her bedroom to the restroom or from
her kitchen to the bedroom
-I just didn't want to go through that again and Dr. Ou
convinced me that it wouldn't be
like that and he was more than right.
-My mom had a tumor on her airway and she
had a terrible cough so he started her
on the trial and her cough was gone I
mean gone and she doesn't even cough anymore
-It's like everything isn't real.
We've called him the miracle worker.
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-You can just see how pleased he is when he looks
at her results and her scan and he just
smiles and just says you're doing good
you're doing good.
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-I think we are very fortunate that
Jackie found us and we found her too and
we were able to treat her and able to
get the response within a month we were
able to published a case report and it's very
important for patients who enroll in the
clinical trials especially at UC Irvine. Lung
cancer is not what it used to be started
no longer death sentence that you
actually have responded very well so it
keeps us screening because we know that
this will work and if you find the patients this should work.
-Her effort her going to this journey is just very
heroic it can really help a lot of people.
-The difference I think between the other hospital and this hospital is
that this is a research hospital and
they do study and specialize in certain
areas where at the other hospital I
don't think that the doctors there were
even aware that this trial even existed.
-I would say that if she had not been on
the clinical trial she probably won't be living today
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-I couldn't do it by myself he gave me a second chance.
-You can't even put words to how important this research is.
-This is a very exciting time for those of us who are
involved in cancer research because
we're able to participate and generate
really groundbreaking discoveries that
are dramatically affecting the prognosis for our cancer patients.
-One of the things I think would be really fantastic
is to save a life I don't know how many people could get to say that
so here I guess the doctors can say that
cuz I'm saving my mom's life with UCI's help.
We're just happy that we're still a family