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ABC evinced an air of self-congratulation when John McKenzie filed a follow-up report on an experimental cancer treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In a June On the Cutting Edge report, McKenzie told us about genetic cancer screening: it can find unusual mutations in tumors of one organ that can be treated by medicines approved for tumors in another body part. Bill Schuette, a World News viewer in Dayton Ohio who had undergone seven different rounds of unsuccessful chemotherapy, saw McKenzie's report in June and contacted the Boston hospital. His tumor was eligible for the experiment and his lung cancer is now improving.
Unfortunately, Schuette is the exception. Massachusetts General cancer researcher Alice Shaw told McKenzie that she received "hundreds of phone calls" after his Cutting Edge report aired. She has been able to help "several."
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