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71. What Do COVID-19 and Cancer Have in Common?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Cancer Treatment Landscape

There are syndromes such as Lynch syndrome where patients have a genetically high risk of developing different types of cancers. There are clinical trials that are ongoing now just starting to look at cancer prevention vaccines against these types of cancer associated proteins and mutations. If you were to forecast, let's say, 10 to 20 years from now, how different do you think the cancer treatment landscape will be that it is today? I can tell you it's been a roller coaster ride the last two decades. So I feel pretty confident saying it's going to be completely different from where we are now.

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