Mindscape 303 | James Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System
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A typical human lifespan is approximately three billion heartbeats in duration. Lasting that long requires not only intrinsic stability, but an impressive capacity for self-repair. Nevertheless, things do occasionally break down, and cancer is one of the most dramatic examples of such breakdown. Given that the body is generally so good at protecting itself, can we harness our internal security patrol - the immune system - to fight cancer? This is the hope of Nobel Laureate James Allison, who works on studying the structure and behavior of immune cells, and ways to coax them into fighting cancer. This approach offers hope of a way to combat cancer effectively, lastingly, and in a relatively gentle way.
James P. Allison received his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently Regental Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology, the Olga Keith Wiess Distinguished University Chair for Cancer Research, Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Research, and Director of the James P. Allison Institute at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is the subject of the documentary film Jim Allison: Breakthrough. Among his numerous awards are the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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I literally owe my life to this man.
5 years ago immunotherapy eliminated my stage 4 melanoma in a few months. 6 tumours in my torso and legs, one big one on my back, and two grape sized ones in my left parietal lobe. The brain tumours needed one stereotactic radiation to burn them out, but the melanoma hasn't returned.
Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you.
Very interesting episode. I was diagnosed with Grade 4 Glioblastoma last summer. Surgery to remove tumor, RAD/Chemo...ugh. Currently using the Optune device which creates fields of a particular frequency to interrupt cancer cell division. It's a bit of hope. Anyhow, feeling good for now, still working and catching all the episodes as soon as they drop 😁😄
Thanks for doing it!
I can't thank you enough for allowing the commons like myself to get to know the kitchens of oh so many restaurants of the science world.
very interesting topic, top guest, great questions - i love this podcast so much!
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Thanks for covering this topic. I learned a lot about what's going on with the research.
The start to this one slapped me across the face
very nice talk!
would love too know more about "well it's really complicated" , perhaps follow ups on more specific areas please?
Perhaps Many Worlds is the physical limit of the degrees of freedom (wave function) that is “possible” within these laws of physics. How freedom is guaranteed in a sort of “interaction” or “interactive” wave form - all this, in the perspective of ‘effective’ conscious beings, of course.
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