Can a virtual team of researchers break a 40-year logjam in this rare cancer?
John Carroll
August 25, 2025
When Mac Tichenor’s son Willie died of osteosarcoma at the age of 19 back in 2006, oncologists still relied on a decades-old chemo regimen called MAP — high-dose methotrexate, combined with doxorubicin and cisplatin. Typically, for young patients with the rare bone cancer, it staved off death for a while.
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