Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In this story, the science reporter Denise Grady provides human backstory about her article about a woman who, remarkably, recovered from colon cancer after treatment with cells from her own immune system. I’ve been meeting more and more people with cancer lately who would be desperately ill — or worse — had they not taken matters into their own hands and found their way into clinical trials in which they received experimental treatments that put the disease in remission.

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