Surviving the Cure
Courtney Horvath |
TEDxMcphs
• March 2022
As a toxicologist, Courtney Horvath has focused her career on ensuring the safety of medicines – but when her own son was diagnosed with lymphoma, she was left to watch him suffer, dealing with a treatment regimen including decades-old drugs with toxic side effects. In her talk, Courtney describes what it takes for childhood cancer patients to “survive the cure” – and how desperately we need more targeted, effective, accessible, and safe medicines for kids with cancer.