Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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But as you know, as of very recently, for the first time in human history, there was one medicine that changed in a randomized controlled trial.
So in other words, in a fair, statistically clean way, showed that it could increase the lifespan of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer.
The increase was from six months to 13 months, and you could say, who cares?
But that's not the way to think about it.
The way I think about cancer, all cancer, is it's like climbing a mountain.
And the first crampon you put into the mountain is very crucial because it's going to hold up the whole journey upwards.
And in this case, the first crampon has been planted.
From here on, we'll know, you know, how does it become resistant?
Can we make another medicine?
Can we combine it with a third medicine?
And so forth.
So that's that.
And then, of course, my personal nemesis has been
Acute myeloid leukemia, AML, which I've treated for many years, and still, Tatiana Schlossberg got this very moving piece, and she died of AML, that same disease, a few months ago.
Well, people say that the way to manage to do that is by moving yourself away, to distance yourself from the fight.
I think it's just complete nonsense.
I think the way you survive
being an oncologist, the way you survive many of these intense professions that make deep demands of you is to lean in instead of leaning out.
And by leaning in, I mean, you make that person's grief your grief.
You make that person's fight your fight.
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