Theresa Beech, A Space Engineer at Nasa, will discuss how her expertise in collecting and analyzing data, has helped to identify problems and come up with answers to the difficult bone cancer Osteosarcoma, which cost her son his life in 2016.

Theresa Beech's son Daniel was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma when he was 11 years old and passed away from this bone cancer in 2016 when he was 13 . Theresa, a Space Engineer at NASA was able to use her expertise in collecting and analyzing data, to identify a drug which allowed Daniel to live 4 months longer when the thought was that he had only 2 weeks to live.Before he passed away, Daniel asked his mother to continue to try and help other Osteosarcoma patients, and Theresa has come up with a number of initiatives and solutions which are making the future of Osteosarcoma patients, especially patients that have relapsed, look brighter then one that they currently have.