Episode 30: The Cancer Innovation Bottleneck: Why Your Immune System Is Smarter Than Any Drug
“I love the idea of kicking cancer’s ass. It’s what I get up every day to do.”
In this powerful and eye-opening episode, Dr. Karen E. Knudsen, CEO of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, joins Joelle Kaufman to reveal how we’re finally turning the body’s own immune system into cancer’s worst enemy.
They dive deep into:
The three types of immunotherapy reshaping cancer treatment
Why 98% of patients can’t access clinical trials (and how AI is changing that)
What venture capital’s “de-risk” demand is doing to breakthrough science
The truth about full-body scans and multi-cancer blood…
The skinny
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