Cancer
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Today,
cancer
detection happens mainly when symptoms appear.
We cannot lose the war against
cancer.
I want to see the day when
cancer
is treated easily because it can be routinely diagnosed at the very early stages, and I'm certain that in the very near future, because of this and other breakthroughs that we are seeing every day in the life sciences, the way we see
cancer
will radically change.
And where I have seen this survivor identity have the most consequences is in the
cancer
community.
And in 2005, I was working at a big
cancer
center when I received the news that my mother had breast
cancer.
And then five days later, I received the news that I had breast
cancer.
And in fact, I thought, well, if you have to have cancer, it's pretty convenient to be working at a place that treats it.
So I did get my treatment at the
cancer
center where I worked, which was amazingly convenient, and I had chemotherapy and a mastectomy, and a saline implant put in, and so before I say another word, let me just say right now, this is the fake one.
I learned a lot being a patient, and one of the surprising things was that only a small part of the
cancer
experience is about medicine.
It's about realizing that the most important things in life are not things at all, but relationships, and it's about laughing in the face of uncertainty and learning that the way to get out of almost anything is to say, "I have cancer."
So the other thing I learned was that I don't have to take on
"cancer
survivor" as my identity, but, boy, are there powerful forces pushing me to do just that.
Cancer
organizations and the drive for early screening and
cancer
awareness and
cancer
research have normalized cancer, and this is a wonderful thing.
We can now talk about
cancer
without whispering.
We can talk about
cancer
and we can support one another.
Yep, this
cancer
is your wakeup call."
He's pretty aware of
cancer
already.
Prices are important signals and we need to pay attention, but we also need to consider the fact that although these high prices seem unusual for antibiotics, they're nothing compared to the price per day of some
cancer
drugs, which might save a patient's life only for a few months or perhaps a year, whereas antibiotics would potentially save a patient's life forever.
And it was: We found out that she had stage IV breast cancer,
cancer
that by then had spread to her lungs, her bones, and her brain.
My mother fought her
cancer
for eight years.
Where's the cure for breast
cancer?
Physicians and veterinarians were essentially taking care of the same disorders in their animal and human patients: congestive heart failure, brain tumors, leukemia, diabetes, arthritis, ALS, breast cancer, even psychiatric syndromes like depression, anxiety, compulsions, eating disorders and self-injury.
But there's something very different about giving an animal a medication or a human disease and the animal developing congestive heart failure or diabetes or breast
cancer
on their own.
At Zoobiquity conferences, participants learn how treating breast
cancer
in a tiger can help us better treat breast
cancer
in a kindergarten teacher; how understanding polycystic overies in a Holstein cow can help us better take care of a dance instructor with painful periods; and how better understanding the treatment of separation anxiety in a high-strung Sheltie can help an anxious young child struggling with his first days of school.
For example, in medicine, a team in Boston announced that they had discovered dozens of new clinically relevant features of tumors which help doctors make a prognosis of a
cancer.
Very similarly, in Stanford, a group there announced that, looking at tissues under magnification, they've developed a machine learning-based system which in fact is better than human pathologists at predicting survival rates for
cancer
sufferers.
In this pathology case, the computer system actually discovered that the cells around the
cancer
are as important as the
cancer
cells themselves in making a diagnosis.
My wife Fernanda doesn't like the term, but a lot of people in my family died of melanoma
cancer
and my parents and grandparents had it.
His
cancer
was extremely aggressive.
Folks who are exposed in very high doses have triple the lifetime risk of heart disease and lung
cancer
and a 20-year difference in life expectancy.
A person with an ACE score of seven or more had triple the lifetime risk of lung
cancer
and three and a half times the risk of ischemic heart disease, the number one killer in the United States of America.
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