Dr. Brenda Gallie: Woman of Vision

Dr. Brenda Gallie knows no boundaries when it comes to chasing the cure for retinoblastoma. As a practicing MD who has set up her own cancer research lab, she searches for earlier, better treatments of this hereditary eye cancer and saves the sight and lives of babies while providing insights into the nature of cancer.

Dr. Brenda Gallie wasn't originally looking to find a cure for cancer. As a practicing ophthalmologist, her goal was to end suffering in the patients she saw by repairing diseased eyes. Then a rare from of hereditary cancer, which causes life-threatening tumors in infants, caught her eye. Retinoblastoma can rob a child of life by migrating up the optic nerve into the brain. And until Dr. Gallie turned her attention to the disease, the treatment could be even worse than the cancer, as radiation could set off new tumors in tiny bodies.