Cancer. The dreaded word.
When that diagnosis is provided, the patient knows they are in for surgery, radiation therapy or chemotherapy. Or, all of the above.
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We all dread these six letters. C A N C E R. The second largest killer of humans in advanced societies.
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Yesterday, we spoke about two new approaches to cancer therapy. Today, we’ll consider other aspects of these new treatments. No. We really aren’t. Because yesterday, we spoke about new tools in our arsenal against cancer. What we are really going to talk about today is a paradigm shift, something that is sometimes termed ‘precision medicine’.
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Genetic engineering? Immunotherapy? These are terms often mentioned in the news, but we don’t totally grasp their significance- especially for cancer victims.
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I just lost a friend to cancer. One who was supposedly in remission. Until we found out her “stroke” was a cacophony of tumors in her brain- and the rest of her body. My father succumbed to three different cancers, simultaneously, and relatively quickly.
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