News Video Clips
On December 5, 2006, Fox affiliate WHBQ-TV in Memphis featured
this "Health Matters" segment during their 9:00 P.M. news
broadcast. The feature focused on the great promise shown by new
targeted therapies in treating retinoblastoma to destroy cancer
cells without damaging healthy tissue.
On January 13, 2006, an international teleconference symposium
was held aboard the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital, with live, two-way
video links to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, the UT
Hamilton Eye Institute, and outreach treatment sites in Guatemala
and Honduras. Fox 13 News covered the story.
On Thanksgiving
Day, November 25, 2004, Marlo Thomas, National Outreach Director
for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, appeared on the Today
Show to spotlight Zachary Noblett and his family. Zachary has retinoblastoma, a form of cancer causing potentially
life-threatening and blinding tumors in the eyes. Without treatment,
Zachary and others like him could lose their sight and even their
lives. But doctors at UT and St. Jude are working to prevent that.
Watch this video to view the Today Show story
and learn more about this disease and its treatment.
On February 3, 2004, WREG News Channel 3 in Memphis ran this
story on the treatment of retinoblastoma at St. Jude and UT.
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