Dr. Ezekiel (Zeke) Emanuel
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 27 Jan
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When I was training,
we would so this is a case where the white cells go up in the blood we would mostly treat it by giving people a drug called hydroxyurea that would drop the white cells but we knew that at some point they would do what we call blast off they would convert into an acute leukemia and no matter what we threw at them in chemotherapy no difference and then in the nine late 1990s
Glee vac, a new drug was developed.
People take Glee vac and, you know, they live a normal life.
The disease doesn't come back.
It's amazing.
You took this deadly disease.
Similarly, we've developed CAR T therapy at the University of Pennsylvania, where I'm a faculty member.
And literally people who've been through all the chemotherapies on death's door, they get this T cell infusion that attacks their cancer and they're,
you know, cured.
It is totally amazing.
And we have seen the rate of decline in cancers when people have cancer go down your skepticism.
Well, does that mean we're diagnosing more cancers that wouldn't have killed people?
That's partially true.
But we also are people who get diagnosed.
We've got better treatments for them in a number of cancers, breast cancer being one of them.
We've come a long way in treating things like melanoma and lung cancer, which was uniformly terminal when I was training, no longer are uniformly terminal, or we've extended the life expectancy of those patients substantially from a few months to years now.
So I would say overall better.
Now, there are problems and there are challenges.
As you point out, the older the population gets, the more cancers people are going to have.
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