SIO524: Why We Haven’t Cured Cancer Yet, Part 2 (with Dr. Eric Jaffe)

Part 2! Dr. Eric Jaffe returns to actually treat the cancer this time: why radiation is basically catching your kid smoking and making him finish the carton, how CRISPR turns your own T cells into an assassin squad, and why oncolytic viruses are just Jurassic World Dominion for tumors.

Haven't heard Part 1 yet? Start there or you'll be lost.

Mentioned:

• CAR-T therapy

• RAS inhibitor drugs

• Oncolytic viruses

• mRNA cancer vaccines

• Red Queen hypothesis

• Cancer-sniffing dogs

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