#39 - Ted Schaeffer, M.D., Ph.D.: How to catch, treat, and survive prostate cancer
The Peter Attia Drive
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Is There a Transition in Cancer Immunology?
There were about only 100 disease states that result from single gene mutations. That was the big thing, the big transition in Francis Collins is really leading that where there are people hunting for the gene for type 2 diabetes at the time I was there. And so, within immunology, when I was there, it was also a transition. So it turns out that the tyrosine kinases that I worked on in my PhD are really involved in fine tuning the T cell receptor signaling. They're really rheostats. They really fine tuned the signal. It's not off or on, just like, you know, you have a mutation in x, y, or z off or on
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