David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

things over. Did he care what people
thought of him? Maybe. But not enough
to stop doing what he thought was
right.^10
“How Jay did it,” he said finally, “I
don’t know.”
But we do know, don’t we? He had
been through worse.
In 1965, Freireich and Frei published
“Progress and Perspectives in the
Chemotherapy of Acute Leukemia” in
Advances in Chemotherapy, announcing
that they had developed a successful
treatment for childhood leukemia.^11
Today, the cure rate for this form of
cancer is more than 90 percent. The
number of children whose lives have