Scientific Technology:A New Strategy in the War against Cancer
For the last 50 years, we have focused on treating the individual gene, in understanding cancer, not in controlling cancer. So, this is an astounding table. And this is something that sobers us in our field everyday in that, obviously, we've made remarkable impacts on cardiovascular disease. But look at cancer. The death rate in cancer in over 50 years hasn't changed. We've made small wins in diseases like chronic myelogenous leukemia, where we have a pill that can put 100 percent of people in remission. But, in general, we haven't made an impact at all in the war on cancer. So, today a doctor is going to tell you a little bit of a new approach - that they hope to push forwardin terms of treating cancer.
- Added：2010
- Country：USA
- Duration：30
- Time of update：2011/9/19 14:42:39