STAT+: Duke scientists seemed to have developed a ‘Holy Grail’ of cancer treatment. Then the truth came out

By the time Walter and Juliet Jacobs went to see Dr. Anil Potti, Juliet’s lung cancer was spreading through her torso. She was short of breath, could no longer play tennis, and was afraid she wouldn’t make it to the end of the year.

Now, in early 2010, the Jacobses were looking for a silver bullet — anything that could extend or even save Juliet’s life.

“My Julie,” Walter told Potti, was not ready “to start talking mortality tables.”

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