"Most patients continue to face excruciating, costly and ineffective treatments. It’s time to shift our focus from fighting the disease in its last stages to finding the very first cells." I can't read this (no @WSJ subscription), but no. 1/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/cancer-is-still-beating-uswe-need-a-new-start-11570206319 …
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As we get older, nearly all of us develop cancerous or precancerous cells in some organ(s) in our bodies somewhere. (Something like 75% of men over 80 have cancerous cells in their prostates.) The vast majority of these never progress to cancer that can endanger our lives. 3/
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Finding these "very first cells" will result in the treatment of many people who would never develop clinical cancer. Maybe the rest of the article discusses this, but, again, I don't have a
@WSJ subscription to verify and the message of the headline and blurb is dubious. 4/Show this thread -
Also, what about patients who aren't diagnosed until they are in later stages? Being able to treat or reverse these cancers is where the greatest impact in improving cancer care will happen. 5/
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For example, we do pretty well treating localized breast cancer, but metastatic breast cancer is still incurable. There's where the final frontier is: Stage IV disease. 6/6
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