Ben Sasse

Great question.

And I have to keep answering this one for my mama.

The way it's been explained to me, and I'm a, I don't know, squad about biology, but the way it's been explained to me, you could look out at your lawn and say, there are only six dandelions out there.

I could weed those.

And they say, yes, but look at your neighbors to the north and to the south.

Both of their yards are chock full of dandelions.

Two or three or four mornings from now, that's your yard.

You've already seeded everything.

And so even though my pancreas tumors look on the scans like, let's get these before and after images blown up and put them on the wall, they've already seeded so many other kinds of cancer that it's probably just not something you can ever catch up on.

There's too much whack-a-mole.

No, I have an unbelievable team.

Shubham Pant and Bob Wolf are two of my main lead oncologists at MD Anderson, and they're rock stars.

And they described their work as,

Whereas they're up here with a little pickaxe on a giant Hoover Dam working on pancreatic cancer.

And they get little cracks at the top.

And sometimes little bits of water splash over.

And there's somebody else doing it 400 meters over, another 300 meters over.

There's another team.

And there's somebody at Memorial Sloan Kettering working on it.

And they said, someday these cracks are going to go big and they're going to run together and the dam will crash.