Curiosity, to that extent, might be enhanced when someone you love is affected by or loses his or her life from cancer. It sparks a why can’t they kill this question. I’m a lay person, but when my granddaughter was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in her late teens and six rounds of chemo including doxorubicin and radiation therapy couldn’t kill it, it did prompt me to try to understand why.
Next was the miracle of immunotherapy, and I read about PD-1 and how elusive cancer cells can be. It was like immunotherapy outsmarted her cancer and gave a better chance for stem cell transplant to finish it off.
Irene, I am trying to share the power (and sometimes the peril) of these tools when I write. The most important thing I can do here is get people curious enough to start experimenting and studying on their own.
Curiosity, to that extent, might be enhanced when someone you love is affected by or loses his or her life from cancer. It sparks a why can’t they kill this question. I’m a lay person, but when my granddaughter was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in her late teens and six rounds of chemo including doxorubicin and radiation therapy couldn’t kill it, it did prompt me to try to understand why.
Next was the miracle of immunotherapy, and I read about PD-1 and how elusive cancer cells can be. It was like immunotherapy outsmarted her cancer and gave a better chance for stem cell transplant to finish it off.
Enjoyed reading this thanks Doug...it made me think!
I love this! Much needed thinking and brilliantly expressed. I have my eye on succinate as the Cassandra of cancer.
This is great Doug I bet you had a blast writing that..you’ve got skills!
Thanks, Dan. I love Substack--really makes me think more deeply about things with this kind of space and readership.
This. Is. Brilliant!
Thank you, John! I hope people receive this as an optimistic view-not complaining that we aren't doing our level best already.
Understood. The point may get lost in the noise of our current day.
Using AI for good.
Irene, I am trying to share the power (and sometimes the peril) of these tools when I write. The most important thing I can do here is get people curious enough to start experimenting and studying on their own.