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First in Human: The Trials of Building 10 Episodes

Season 1, Episode 1

Admission

Four patients with serious illnesses arrive at NIH's Building 10 to enter potentially groundbreaking clinical trials. The patients resting their hopes for a cure at this brilliant facility include a firefighter battling leukemia, a mother with metastatic melanoma overtaking her body, a woman fighting sickle cell disease and a little girl with Job's syndrome.

Season 1, Episode 2

Treatment

While a leukemia patient recovers from a near-death experience, a woman battling metastatic melanoma weighs her treatment options. Meanwhile, a woman fighting sickle-cell disease and a little girl with Job's syndrome receive highly experimental bone marrow transplants.

Season 1, Episode 3

Prognosis

Patients with leukemia, metastatic melanoma, sickle-cell disease and Job's syndrome meet with their doctors one last time. After receiving a variety of treatments, it's time to learn whether or not the experimental procedures were successful and what the future holds for them.