Cancer
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He's the head of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at MIT, where I also have a position, and we were talking about
cancer.
We don't know the first thing about how to make a
cancer
drug.
I'm going to tell you about some work we've been doing over the last couple years that we think could fundamentally change the way research for
cancer
and lots of other things gets done.
In the next phase, you test to see if the drug's effective, and you give it to people with
cancer
and you see if it makes them better.
But also, Papua New Guinea has the world's highest incidence of HPV, human papillomavirus, the cervical
cancer
[risk factor].
All three were diagnosed with lung cancer, the number one
cancer
killer of women in the United States today.
Today, what we know is that women who are nonsmokers are three times more likely to be diagnosed with lung
cancer
than are men who are nonsmokers.
Now interestingly, when women are diagnosed with lung cancer, their survival tends to be better than that of men.
Several years ago a new lung
cancer
drug was being evaluated, and when the authors looked at whose tumors shrank, they found that 82 percent were women.
And what this has led to is a more personalized approach to the treatment of lung
cancer
that also includes sex.
Take a look at the death rate from breast
cancer
over time.
And now take a look at the death rates from lung
cancer
in women over time.
Now, it's clear that our investment in breast
cancer
has produced results.
We can do the same for lung
cancer
and for every other disease.
Your closet may be telling someone you love her for the first time, or telling someone that you're pregnant, or telling someone you have cancer, or any of the other hard conversations we have throughout our lives.
About 38 years ago, we were playing around with a technology in my lab called flow cytometry that was developed for biomedical research for studying cells like
cancer
cells, but it turns out we were using it for this off-label purpose which was to study phytoplankton, and it was beautifully suited to do that.
Thinking about this, I rejected many very plausible and dramatic breakthroughs to come, such as curing
cancer.
But for now, I would be satisfied beaming new medicines across the globe, fully automated and on demand, saving lives from emerging infectious diseases and printing personalized
cancer
medicines for those who don't have time to wait.
When we compare it to other conditions that we're familiar with, things like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, in fact, genetics plays a much larger role in autism than it does in any of these other conditions.
["They've discovered a cure for cancer, but not baldness?
I've recently realized that ants are using interactions differently in different environments, and that got me thinking that we could learn from this about other systems, like brains and data networks that we engineer, and even
cancer.
Now this is a place where I think we might be able to learn something from ants about
cancer.
I mean, first, it's obvious that we could do a lot to prevent
cancer
by not allowing people to spread around or sell the toxins that promote the evolution of
cancer
in our bodies, but I don't think the ants can help us much with this because ants never poison their own colonies.
But we might be able to learn something from ants about treating
cancer.
There are many different kinds of
cancer.
Each one originates in a particular part of the body, and then some kinds of
cancer
will spread or metastasize to particular other tissues where they must be getting resources that they need.
So if you think from the perspective of early metastatic
cancer
cells as they're out searching around for the resources that they need, if those resources are clustered, they're likely to use interactions for recruitment, and if we can figure out how
cancer
cells are recruiting, then maybe we could set traps to catch them before they become established.
Now in medical science, we don't want to know, necessarily, just how
cancer
works, we want to know how your
cancer
is different from my
cancer.
I guess my
cancer
different from your
cancer.
Today, however, we still face massive challenges in detecting and diagnosing several life-threatening illnesses, such as infectious diseases and
cancer.
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