The Biggest Challenge in Medicine with Dr. Linda Malkas

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Why have we not found the cure for cancer yet? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly explore paradigm shifts in cancer treatment, molecular biology, and a promising new cancer drug AOH1996 with City of Hope cancer researcher Dr. Linda Malkas.

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0:00.0	Today on Star Talk Special Edition, we learn about a hopeful new direction of cancer treatments
0:06.4	and how they work. Could we one day rid humanity of this terrible, multifaceted disease.
0:15.6	Up next on Star Talk.
0:19.5	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:22.2	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:27.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:30.0	This is Star Talk.
0:33.0	Neil Degrass Tyson, your personal astrophysicist serving as your host.
0:38.0	Today it's Special Edition.
0:41.0	I got with me my Special Edition co-host Gary O'Reilly, Gary.
0:45.8	I knew. Yeah, former soccer pro and sports commentator.
0:50.4	I also got Chuck nice Chuck always good to have you man hey nail so today we're taking up the top very serious topic the emperor of all
0:58.3	Maladies cancer. Oh my gosh Gary what did you put together for today?
1:03.0	Well finding a successful treatment for cancer has long been one of medical sciences
1:08.0	biggest challenges if not the biggest challenge so you know with variable results and some rather nasty side effects
1:14.8	But there was one particular cancer researcher at City of Hope Cancer Research and treatment center in Los Angeles
1:21.8	Decided as she says follow the science and now we are looking at
1:25.8	a possibility of a treatment that takes out the cancerous tumor but leaves the
1:30.4	healthy cells around it intact.
1:32.8	I mean this, yeah, wow.
1:34.8	This is the kind of science that really could change people's lives.
1:38.8	And by the way, our guest once dreamed of being an astronaut.
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