00:02Preparing the next generation for what lies ahead is part of Emily Capper's work as a teacher.
00:08Hi guys, how are we?
00:10But uncertainty about her own future looms large.
00:14Emily has stage 4 brain cancer.
00:17My prognosis was 9 to 14 months.
00:21And you just start thinking of all the things that you're going to miss.
00:25Beautiful, what about down here?
00:26She has outlived that thanks to cutting edge science, which allows for the DNA of a person's cancer to be
00:33studied, so drug treatments can be more targeted.
00:36The evidence is clear that putting patients on matched treatments doubles their survival.
00:44And that is profound.
00:47In recognition of that success, the federal government has committed funding to ensure an additional 25,000 people each year
00:55can access the technology for free.
00:58We target the unique features that are present in an individual's cancer, and that's proven six times as effective as
01:05our old-fashioned chemotherapies.
01:07Genomic medicine like this is developing at breakneck speed, but the health system is not set up to deliver this
01:14kind of care universally.
01:16Tens of thousands of people with advanced cancer are set to miss out.
01:20We want to see this become a standard of care, and to become a sort of feature of the health
01:26system more broadly.
01:27Come on guys!
01:29Emily's treatment is not a cure, but it's buying her time.
01:33Not too fast. Slow down.
01:35Without this, I don't know where I would be.
01:39There wasn't, this was my last option.
01:42The value of extra days, measured in moments like these.
01:46Would you like a nice block?
01:50And with your attention?
01:50How do I get an absolutely first step ahead of being in my life?
