We believe that AAV-2 recognizes that the cancer cells are abnormal and destroys them. This suggests that AAV-2 has great potential to be developed as an anti-cancer agent.

So many cancer therapies are as poisonous to healthy cells as they are to cancer cells. A therapy that is able to distinguish between healthy and cancer cells could be less difficult to endure for those with cancer.

One of the most compelling findings is that AAV-2 appears to have no pathologic effects on healthy cells,

We show how the normal function of the gene keeps dopamine cells from dying. If the gene is abnormal, these protective mechanisms cannot be brought into play.

Conventional wisdom suggests women really don't need to worry about mammograms or breast cancer until they're 40 or unless there's a family history. But statistics tell us that 85 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a family history, which is why it's so important for all women to start asking for and getting a high-quality CBE every year.

Vicki passed away from cancer on Dec. 18, 2004. But four years before that, we had been blessed with this property. We have 20 acres here and Vicki decided she wanted to put in a picnic grove here that could be used for charity events.