The Fantasric Voysage of a Bag of cells Shipped west to be trained in the art of cancer killing

By Damian Garde @damiangarde

October 27, 2017

BOSTON —

Dave Matthews describes his cancer as “the monster inside me.” It’s the one thing he cannot control.

And over the summer, it began to look as though the monster would prevail.

After six months of treatment and a grueling eight rounds of chemotherapy, Matthews’s lymphoma had stopped responding to medicine’s best efforts. For most patients, that’s the end of the line.

Matthews’s doctors, however, gave him one more option.