Are you in oncology? If not, obviously you know a lot about cancer. Just curious on what you know of as the biggest breakthroughs in last maybe 2-3 years. I know there are so many different cancers, but maybe some that were a death sentence a few years ago but now have a successful recovery overall. I’m in the medical field but just a paramedic and don’t know much about cancer research but find it interesting

Had a friend of mine, non smoker that went 7 years with a stage 4 lung cancer, in his 30s. Was pretty remarkable

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Posted by LSUTigerDoc

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Posted on 10/13/20 at 9:07 pm to windshieldman

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Biggest breakthroughs in past several years in oncology:

1. Immunotherapy: harnessing the body’s own immune system to recognize and eliminate cancer cells. A game changer for several cancers; less advantageous for others.

2. Cellular therapy: not the game changer we hoped it could be, but the science provides a wonderful platform to build upon. Can we genetically alter one’s own immune cells, propagate them, and deliver them back to the patient to attack cancer?

3. Supportive care: in the cases of many cancer subtypes, the chemotherapy used hasn’t changed in decades, but the medications administered with chemotherapy to counteract the side effects of chemo have helped to improve survival by enabling us to administer full doses and full courses of chemotherapy.

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Posted by TigerstuckinMS

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Posted on 10/13/20 at 9:09 pm to windshieldman

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Are you in oncology?

I mean, he's got to be a hematologist/oncologist. Nobody else has that big of an interest in which mutated gene locus causes a particular type of AML.

This post was edited on 10/13/20 at 9:10 pm

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