A Boy Who Asked Obama About Stem Cell Research In 2007 Writes To Say It Saved His Life

[Stellar]

A young cancer survivor sent President Barack Obama a moving letter thanking him for keeping a promise made during a 2007 campaign stop -- a promise the boy says saved his life.

Gavin Nore, a teen from Fort Dodge, Iowa, told Obama in a letter shared by the White House Tuesday that he'd had the opportunity to meet the president during his first presidential campaign. At the time, Nore asked Obama whether he'd continue stem cell research during his presidency, to which the president responded he would.

In February 2013, Nore was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma. He was 14 years old. Nore said he was "cancer free" by that summer, but was later re-diagnosed.

"I had to have a stem cell transplant. I beat the battle once again," Nore wrote to the president.

"I would like to thank you very much for continuing the research. If the research haden’t [sic] continued, I wouldn’t be here today.”

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[bettyellen]

1. Yet we hear "they're all the same" all the time here. Not so.