With just a few words, Padina Pezeshki captivated her audience: "Here's a woman suffering from advanced breast cancer," she said simply, "the kind that has spread to her bones. The kind that has fractured her spine."
But Pezeshki, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME), painted a picture of hope and survival through a novel therapy that may significantly alter the course of cancer that has spread to bone.
