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AI and Cancer: Unlocking the Immune System (with Immunai’s Luis Voloch)

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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Is There a Need to Understand the Mechanisms of Cancer Drugs?

I'm just curious about whether we need to understand it. I mean, is the need to understand the biological mechanism not just another medical dogma? We don't know how general anaesthetics work. We don't really know how asperin works. There are large parts of medicine that are in quatidian use where we have no clue about what the mechanisms are. So if it works, and if you can prove it a trillion times in simulations, why do you need to go through this hoop? And on i think on a more practical note, we should go through that hoop because it will help get these drugs into patient quicker. Right now, both the fda as as well

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