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In cancer, cells rapidly divide and lead to uncontrolled tumor growth.
And this is exactly how one
cancer
cell becomes two
cancer
cells, two
cancer
cells become four
cancer
cells, and we have ultimately uncontrolled tumor growth.
This is cultures, identical cultures, of cervical
cancer
cells.
The first
cancer
that we have focused on is the deadly brain cancer, GBM.
And the typical patient with optimal therapy survives just a little over a year, and only about seven months from the time that the
cancer
is first treated and then comes back and starts growing again.
BD: Novocure's also working on lung
cancer
as the second target.
She was diagnosed with lung
cancer
five years ago.
Her
cancer
continued to grow.
Three years ago, she entered the Novocure lung
cancer
trial.
We have more trials planned for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian
cancer
and breast
cancer.
And these preservatives had been found in breast
cancer
tumors.
Very similar statistic for childhood
cancer
in the U.S. In Canada, we're now looking at one in 10 Canadian children with asthma.
Because it turns out that the number one
cancer
in women, breast cancer, is regulated by estrogen and by this enzyme aromatase.
So when you develop a cancerous cell in your breast, aromatase converts androgens into estrogens, and that estrogen turns on or promotes the growth of that
cancer
so that it turns into a tumor and spreads.
In fact, this aromatase is so important in breast
cancer
that the latest treatment for breast
cancer
is a chemical called letrozole, which blocks aromatase, blocks estrogen, so that if you developed a mutated cell, it doesn't grow into a tumor.
And this is not just philosophical, it's already known, that chemicals like diethylstilbestrol and estrogen, PCBs, DDT cross the placenta and effectively determine the likelihood of developing breast
cancer
and obesity and diabetes already when the baby's in the womb.
The tar sands toxins are in the food chain, and this is causing
cancer
rates up to 10 times what they are in the rest of Canada.
Chad is a competitive soccer player, lost his leg eight years ago to
cancer.
And as we have watched women conquer breast
cancer
through the breast
cancer
campaign, this is what we need to do now with heart.
Heart disease kills more women at all ages than breast
cancer.
We're trying to be as good as the breast
cancer
campaign.
We need to be as good as the breast
cancer
campaign to address this crisis.
We can all think of someone, often a young woman, who has been impacted by breast
cancer.
Breast cancer, mortality is down to four percent.
Betty Ford, Nancy Reagan stood up and said, "I'm a breast
cancer
survivor," and it was okay to talk about it.
It informed us about breast cancer, colon
cancer
in women.
So just like the breast
cancer
story, doing research, getting awareness going, it works, you just have to get it going.
Women have heard the call for breast
cancer
and they have come out for awareness campaigns.
Breast cancer, as we said, kills women, but heart disease kills a whole bunch more.
So if we can be as good as breast
cancer
and give women this new charge, we have a lot of lives to save.
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