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#328 - Health & Longevity

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The War on Cancer

We are a half century into the war on cancer, at least. How's it going? If you'd asked me this question five years ago, I would say it's really going horribly. But today we're not winning, but I see some changes, right? We can manipulate an individual's immune system and turn that immune system on their cancer in the same way that their immune system would turn on cells of their body that are harboring viruses. And to now realize that we are figuring out how to do that against cancer is exciting, gives me a lot of hope.

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