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Kim Komando Today

Cancer: How DNA detectives are cracking the case against the world’s most perplexing killer

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Tech News, Technology

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Unexplained cancer outbreaks are happening around the world. But here’s the mystery – why is the epidemic striking certain parts of the world, while others remain untouched? In this episode of Komando on Demand, Kim looks at how, with the latest technology, teams of "DNA Detectives" are discovering surprising clues in the fight to cure cancer. Kim talks to Dr. Cullen Taniguchi of the MD Anderson Cancer Center who shares crucial, new information about the progress of the fight against cancer.

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0:00.0

I'm America's Digital Pro Kim Commando, and welcome to Commando on demand.

0:06.0

It's my podcast that gives you in-depth insight on the ever-changing technology world.

0:10.0

Before we get started, a quick message from one of our partners in this podcast that help make them possible.

0:20.0

Right now, we're just learning the first part of the mystery.

0:23.2

It's kind of like we've just opened the book and tried to figure it out using DNA technology.

0:28.0

There's a serial killer on the loose that thousands of detectives are just trying to stop.

0:33.3

This killer has destroyed millions of lives, literally.

0:37.3

The detectives are coming at it from all sides, setting up ambushes. This killer has destroyed millions of lives, literally.

0:37.5

The detectives are coming at it from all sides, setting up ambushes, trying to lure it

0:42.8

out of hiding, figure out its tactics to catch it, and finally kill it.

0:48.3

But the killer is smart, adaptable, unpredictable, undetectable, but its methods are getting easier and easier to figure out.

0:58.0

The detectives are zeroing in, circling around on all sides.

1:02.0

Let me tell you, the killer can't strike the way it used to because of new technology.

1:07.0

Sometimes the detectives see it coming and they can save lives. But with every life saved, more mysteries crop up.

1:14.6

The killer is able to morph, to mutate, and to just change course.

1:19.6

Detectives try and starve it.

1:21.6

They poison it. They burn it.

1:23.6

They cut it off.

1:25.6

And they remove its energy supply, but it's still relentless.

1:29.8

Can you think what the killer is?

1:32.1

That killer is cancer.

1:34.2

And it's slowly but surely losing the fight, such great news.

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