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Cancer Was in Dinosaurs. Dr. Chris Hillis on How Far We’ve Come
Cancer treatment advances have changed what a diagnosis means, and most of us haven't updated our mental model for it. Cancer was in dinosaur bones. It is as old as life itself, and it will not be fixed with a simple switch. But what has changed in one generation of medicine is worth understanding before you panic.
What does it feel like to hear a diagnosis and immediately reach for the worst version of it? Immunotherapy can now cure people with metastatic melanoma who would have had no treatment options fifteen years ago. That is a different disease than the one most people picture.
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