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Instead of one-size-fits-all methods to be able to treat cancers, there is a whole new class of
drugs
that are able to target cancers based on their unique genetic profile.
Today, there are a host of these tailor-made drugs, called targeted therapies, available to physicians even today to be able to personalize their therapy for their patients, and many others are in development.
For example, there have been ways where we find the off switches of cancer, and new
drugs
have been able to turn the immune system back on, to be able to fight cancer.
While genetically similar, there are small differences in these different cancers that make them differently prone to different
drugs.
The sad fact is, even with the best
drugs
that we have today, most lung cancers come back.
And there are now a couple of
drugs
out there in the market that are used to treat cancer patients that act exactly by this process.
In fact, one of those
drugs
may well have spared President Jimmy Carter's life.
But he was treated with one of these new immune-stimulating drugs, and now his melanoma appears to be in remission, which is remarkable, considering the situation only a few years ago.
In fact, it's so remarkable that provocative statements like this one: "Cancer is having a penicillin moment," people are saying, with these new immune therapy
drugs.
These are the teenagers, typically, who'd be standing out on the street corner, selling the
drugs.
So it's a lot safer being on death row than it is selling
drugs
out on the street.
So why in the world, you might ask, would anybody be willing to stand out on a street corner selling
drugs
for $3.50 an hour, with a 25 percent chance of dying over the next four years?
It can also play a role in medicines, for instance, as a method for noninvasive delivery systems for
drugs
and genes to a specific part of the body.
Imagine a microbubble filled with a mixture of
drugs
and magnetic agents being injected into our bloodstream.
It's being done in the same way that we test
drugs
to see what really works.
And yes, we have developed more selective drugs, but it's still a challenge to get them into the tumor, and they end up accumulating in the other organs as well or passing through your urine, which is a total waste.
And fields like mine have emerged where we try to encapsulate these
drugs
to protect them as they travel through the body.
Why not use immune cells to deliver
drugs
to cure some of our biggest problems in disease?
For this example, we used two molecules, e-selectin and trail, but really, the possibility of
drugs
you can use are endless.
Imagine using immune cells to deliver crucial wound-healing agents after a spinal cord injury, or using immune cells to deliver
drugs
past the blood-brain barrier to treat Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease.
Anne's a transgender female, and as her and I started talking, she was sharing with me about what brought her into treatment, but I could hear this fear in her voice, and I could see this worry in her eyes, and she began to tell me that she didn't fear coming into rehab and having to give up
drugs
and alcohol.
So Anne then found herself on the streets and in and out of homeless shelters, and it's here where she started using
drugs
and alcohol to numb this pain she felt inside.
The more I looked into this, I saw how this very real fear of violence, discrimination and this lack of acceptance caused so many of these patients to turn to alcohol and
drugs.
John Markoff: Do you want to know what the counterculture in drugs, sex, rock 'n' roll and the anti-war movement had to do with computing?
"Drugs
are fun in the beginning but become a drag later on."
And they were also allowed to continue to use
drugs
and to drink, just like we can in our homes.
A whole team has to be skilled and coordinated; the nurses who do the deliveries in a place like this, the doctor who backs them up, the supply clerk who's responsible for 22 critical
drugs
and supplies being in stock and at the bedside, the medical officer in charge, responsible for the quality of the whole facility.
Now, again, when you talk about getting this biodiversity of Africa working for us, you'd be shocked to know that out of the 1,100 blockbuster
drugs
that we have on the market, only 83 come from African plants.
Many of them are 17 to 18 years old, experimenting with drugs, in and out of the juvenile detention system and expelled from school.
But in my case, the
drugs
only made things worse.
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