David Fagenbaum

20 to 30% of all prescriptions in the US every day are off-label, so doctors are trying drugs for diseases they're not intended for.

Unfortunately, it happens very randomly, and there are a lot more opportunities for those drugs to be used systematically, but it's just not profitable in our system to find a new use for an old drug.

80% of drugs are generic, so unfortunately, the system isn't built for this.

to find new uses for medicines.

But the reason I share that as background is that that means that most of you all have received a drug for a disease it wasn't intended for.

And maybe it helped some of you.

You can go to everycure.org slash ideas and you can tell us about a drug that you've received that maybe has helped you that we can look into.

We can look into our AI platform to see how is it ranking versus all of our other repurposing ideas.

Second is that you can help to support us financially.

We run large clinical trials that are very expensive, and we want to reach patients all over the world.

And finally, awareness raising is really important.

We find treatments for diseases that we never would have imagined, like lidocaine for breast cancer or DFMO for Bachman-Bupp syndrome.

And amazingly, the problem for a lot of these medications is just awareness, just getting that drug to the patient.

It's a matter of letting patients and doctors know, so helping to spread the word about our work at EveryCure.

Sure, I think there's three things that can really help you during a really tough time.

And I learned this from the six months that I spent in the intensive care unit when I was dying from my disease, Castleman's.

And the first is that you have to have a vision for what you're fighting for.

So you have to

be able to actually see what is it that you want and that you're wishing and hoping for.

So for me, I was wishing and hoping for a family with my girlfriend at the time, Caitlin.