How native speakers pronounce “cancer”

heart about a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on

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pancreas was the doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable and that I should

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because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery I had the surgery

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For the most widely performed surgery on men over the age of 50, removal of the prostate for cancer, the number needed to treat is 49.

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"Who's going to be there for me if I get in a car wreck? Who's going to take care of me if I have cancer?" Now in that moment, it took everything I had

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who looks after patients with sarcoma. Sarcoma is a very rare form of cancer. It's the cancer of flesh and bones.

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Sarcoma is a very rare form of cancer. It's the cancer of flesh and bones. And I would tell you that every one of my patients is an outlier,

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As an example, this is a patient of mine who had a cancer near his knee. Because of humbly curious communication

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we have learned that we can repurpose the ankle to serve as the knee when we have to remove the knee with the cancer. He can then wear a prosthetic and run and jump and play.

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They make up about one percent of all cancers. You also probably know that cancer is considered a genetic disease. By genetic disease we mean that cancer is caused by oncogenes

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You also probably know that cancer is considered a genetic disease. By genetic disease we mean that cancer is caused by oncogenes that are turned on in cancer

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By genetic disease we mean that cancer is caused by oncogenes that are turned on in cancer and tumor suppressor genes that are turned off to cause cancer.

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that are turned on in cancer and tumor suppressor genes that are turned off to cause cancer. You might think that we learned about oncogenes

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and tumor suppressor genes from common cancers like breast cancer and prostate cancer and lung cancer,

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like breast cancer and prostate cancer and lung cancer, but you'd be wrong.

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Now, I will not tell you that src is the most important oncogene. that src is the most frequently turned on oncogene in all of cancer. But it was the first oncogene.

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It is the most frequently turned off tumor suppressor gene in almost every kind of cancer. But we didn't learn about it from common cancers.

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but I still wanted to come and see him. He was a boy I had diagnosed with a bone cancer a few days before. He and his mother had been meeting with the chemotherapy doctors

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that we don't always win with this type of cancer, but I've been studying this protocol, and I think I can do it.

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But a year and a half later her boy nonetheless died of his cancer. Should I have told her?

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And we're going to work together to find out if this surgery will work to get rid of your cancer." I can guarantee you, she and her husband

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And if your immune system fails to catch it, we call that cancer. The thing about untreated cancer is it succeeds for a while.

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we call that cancer. The thing about untreated cancer is it succeeds for a while. The tumor grows,

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The tumor grows, but eventually, the cancer kills the host, which kills the cancer.

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but eventually, the cancer kills the host, which kills the cancer. A part forgets the whole,

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that cannabinoids can help treat rare types of epilepsy, the nausea and vomiting associated with some cancer treatments. It can also help treat some forms of chronic or long-term pain,

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Joy took care of her friend Hannah during Hannah's six-year battle with ovarian cancer. And that included flying out to New York,

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scary ones, besides the waist. Things like breast cancer and colon cancer are directly tied to our lack of physical ,

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the 15th largest cause of death in the United States last year, killing more people than skin cancer, HIV/AIDS and homicide. (Laughter)

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isn't worrying that AI will hijack your career or facing a cancer diagnosis. A reset won't turn awful into awesome,

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among people who are socially engaged. It's why women who have breast cancer are four times more likely to survive their disease than loners are.

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non-linear Events first I was diagnosed with a rare life-threatening cancer then I had financial troubles

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death of his wife of 45 years Jerry from breast cancer I would often talk to Jerry in my mind

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who had dedicated my life to becoming a doctor after my mom died from cancer. And yet here I was, literally dying from a disease

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is now utilized for leprosy and the cancer multiple myeloma. Now repurposing works because,

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Like Kylo, who began her freshman year of nursing school after we repurposed a bone-marrow cancer drug to save her life, which is now being studied in clinical trials.

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And Michael, who walked his son down the aisle on his wedding day, after we repurposed a melanoma drug to treat his rare cancer, which is now being used all over the world for that rare cancer.

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after we repurposed a melanoma drug to treat his rare cancer, which is now being used all over the world for that rare cancer. With every one of these discoveries,

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like we did for Joseph, who was dying from POEMS syndrome, which is a rare cancer, and on his 30th birthday was saying goodbye to his girlfriend Tara,

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While many cancers have no cure, a cancer diagnosis is no longer a death sentence due to the expanding toolkit of treatments.

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Let me show you an example from my country. “Cancer Alley” is the stretch that runs from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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mostly African-American areas. In the middle of Cancer Alley, Reserve, Louisiana has the highest cancer rate in the United States,

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In the middle of Cancer Alley, Reserve, Louisiana has the highest cancer rate in the United States, 50 times the national average,

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Some of it was tied up in her mom's alcoholism. But now her mom was dying of cancer. And as heart-wrenching as it was to admit,

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When I was three and my dad was 42, he was diagnosed with metastatic bone cancer and he was told he had six months to live.

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He had his right leg amputated and he went in for chemo and radiation, which in the early 1980s for bone cancer was especially brutal. And then, miraculously, he didn't die.

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And then when I was 11, the cancer came back and stayed for good. We lived between scans, like, that's how our time was meted out.

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I lost my mom. Also to cancer. But quickly this time.

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And his story is that he was critically ill with a horrible, rare cancer called POEMS syndrome, and his doctors had tried everything the doctors knew to try

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and his doctors had tried everything the doctors knew to try for this rare cancer. And his girlfriend, Tara, reached out to my team on a Friday.

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and recommend three drugs that were made for multiple myeloma, which is a cancer that's similar to POEMS syndrome, but those drugs are not used for POEMS.

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they're telling us that drugs like lidocaine can help potential patients with breast cancer. Things that, you know, our brains would have never gone to immediately.

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Because this is amazing technology. It's going to solve cancer, it is going to bring us better energy sources,

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It found me then because of two things: a very close friend, young guy, my age, died of pancreatic cancer unexpectedly, and then my girlfriend, who I thought I was going to marry, walked out.

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are 100 dirty surprises that are not in the playbook. I had stage-3 cancer in my 30s, and I can tell you that following the chemo schedule

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Sometimes I see myself naked. Stretch marks from pregnancies, scars from cancer surgeries, other things that I don't feel you need to be visualizing right about now.

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And research shows that they would be years largely free of chronic disease, heart disease, cancer and diabetes. We think the best way to get these missing years

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Five times as many centenarians as we have in America. One fifth the rate of colon and breast cancer, big killers here in America.

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Or a 16-year-old girl who built an algorithm to help detect whether a cancer is benign or malignant in the off chance that she can save her daddy's life

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in the off chance that she can save her daddy's life because he has cancer. These are just three examples of thousands,

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and hence my well-being, my health, without those downsides of cancer risks? OK?

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that allows us to do an incredible thing: to treat cancer without drugs or surgery, which we call radiotherapy.

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In countries like Australia and the UK, around half of all cancer patients are treated using radiotherapy. And so, electron accelerators are actually standard equipment

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Catching cancer at its earliest stages, when it's most treatable, can save countless lives.

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in an otherwise healthy body made up of trillions of cells, how can we zero in on a small group of rogue cancer cells? The answer, I think,

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We have found a new class of RNAs that have changed how we think about cancer detection. These are relatively small RNAs,

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These oncRNAs have not only changed and transformed our approach to cancer detection from blood non-invasively,

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So leveraging these RNAs, we are not only detecting cancer earlier, we are actually peering into its biology.

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to be a healthy, well-functioning cell. Now, cancer cells, being the resourceful survivalists that they are, they actually hijack components of this machinery to their advantage.

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that will help the tumor grow and spread throughout the body, or silence or down-regulate genes whose job is to keep cancer in check. Another way of putting this

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Another way of putting this is that cancer cells are basically hacking that original genomic recipe that I told you about.

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that is actually a consequence of this genomic reprogramming that happens in cancer cells, is actually a hallmark of cancer. Basically, parts of the genome that is normally silent

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and inactive in healthy cells becomes activated in cancer. And a direct consequence of this activation

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is the birth of a new kind of RNA. That we only see these RNAs in cancer, but not really in healthy cells.

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Now over the past few years, we have spent a lot of time basically mapping these cancer-emergent RNAs across human cancers.

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is that which oncRNAs I see in a given sample is not random. It's actually tied back to the type or subtype of cancer that I'm looking at.

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So collectively, oncRNAs actually provide a digital molecular barcode that captures cancer cell identity. And it's actually unique to the type or subtype of cancer.

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that captures cancer cell identity. And it's actually unique to the type or subtype of cancer. But how are these molecular barcodes actually useful?

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But how are these molecular barcodes actually useful? So it turns out oncRNAs are not actually confined to cancer cells. Some of them are nicely packaged and released into the blood.

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And with all of this introduction, I hope you know where I'm going with this. Basically, if oncRNAs are only expressed in cancer cells, and some of them do in fact find their way into the bloodstream,

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doesn't it mean that we should be able to detect them in blood samples from cancer patients? The answer, turns out, is yes, but with an asterisk.

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because only a subset of oncRNAs are actually secreted from cancer cells into the blood. And even a smaller subset can be reliably detected

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we have come a step closer to actually bringing this platform to the clinic. In a preliminary study across 200 breast cancer patients, we have actually shown that we can use oncRNAs

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only when it's needed. I truly believe that the next decade is the decade of cancer screening. And as you can imagine, blood detection of cancers

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unable to marshal the same emotional resources that got her through four years of cancer treatments? Why do so many of us flounder

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It involves substituting "and" for "but" -- not "I am here but I have cancer," but rather, "I have cancer and I am here."

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not "I am here but I have cancer," but rather, "I have cancer and I am here." When we're ashamed, we can't tell our stories,

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