Serial killers? I hope so!

The news out of University of Pennsylvania this week about their serial killers caused me to weep. “Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania transformed patients’ own white blood cells into ‘serial killers’ capable of annihilating cancer cells within the body. The two patients who experienced full recovery are still in remission more than a year later.”

I am a cancer survivor, (my husband is one, too), and I know the treatment choices for cancer patients: they all feel like walking into fire to treat or cure this horrible disease.

In the story The Lady, or the Tiger? the offender is offered a unique form of “justice:” he may choose one door and be rewarded with marriage to a beautiful woman or open another door and be destroyed by the tiger. All cancer choices felt like tigers. Imagine a door that leads to one’s own white cells as the answer to a cancer diagnosis!

The cost to move ahead through this new door is resource- intensive, the cost of not moving ahead - holds only tigers.