Episode 54: He built cancer surgery. Then told us to stop.
Dr. Charles Balch, professor emeritus at MD Anderson Cancer Center, helped make surgical oncology a specialty, led ASCO, and now runs ISOPT, the International Society of Oncology Prevention and Treatment. On this episode of Kicking Cancer's Ass, he tells Joelle Kaufman why the future of cancer care is prevention and early detection, not bigger surgery.
They cover how immunotherapy works (and why it treats the immune system, not the tumor), how six weeks of treatment now clears most stage 3 melanoma without an operation, and why cancer is rising fast in people under 50 who fall outside…
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