MY CURE MATTERS to Dr. David Fajgenbaum

<div> <h1 class="pg-headline" style="text-align: center;"> <em><span style="font-size: 12pt;">'This med student was given last rites before finding a treatment that saved his life. His method could help millions more.'</span></em></h1> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My guest today, Dr. David Fajgenbaum, should not be here. Known by his friends as 'the beast' - he went from being a fit young man, champion weightlifter and college quarterback – to fighting a rare disease that nearly killed him…five times, including being given his last rites. </span></div> <div> <div><span style= "font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">David Fajgenbaum was a gifted medical student, a degree he was pursuing to honour the early death of his Mom to cancer. His Mom continues to this day, to be such a powerful role model to this fine young man.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">During his third year, David began to experience the symptoms of a rare idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease, from which there is no cure. Blood work confirmed the worst. His <em>liver, kidneys, bone marrow, heart and lungs were shutting down.</em> The only treatment to delay death is a carpet-bombing of chemotherapy. </span></div> <div><span style= "font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt;" data-preserver-spaces= "true"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Over the next few years, David found himself back in hospital on several occasions and fighting to stay alive. He knew chemotherapy wasn't the answer as you can only 'nuke' so much before it causes irreversible organ damage. So David took it upon himself to chase his cure. He knew that most rare diseases didn't have an FDA-approved drug, but he wondered if a drug approved for another disease could also work for him?</span></span></div> <div><span style= "font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-famil