The January/February 2014 issue of the Atlantic Monthly James Fallows interviews cancer researcher Eric S. Lander from Harvard and MIT. He considers genomic cancer research to be at the halfway point from basic understanding to implementation. He believes successful cancer treatments will involve a cocktail mixture similar to the one that has been used to treat people with HIV. The odds of the cancer cells developing a mutation to go around three separate chemical treatments are quite remote.
He encourages young researchers to get involved. If we attack this aggressively we can have some excellent successful treatments within a generation. It will take twice as long if the resources are not applied.
He encourages young researchers to get involved. If we attack this aggressively we can have some excellent successful treatments within a generation. It will take twice as long if the resources are not applied.
Eric S. Lander at the Aspen Ideas Festival 2013 - 25 minutes
Biology of cancer Fall, 2013 - 63 minutes
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