Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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It means many things.
It means different things to different people.
You come and say, oh, my God, my left cheek is inflamed because it's burning.
Other people might say, I have chronic inflammation.
No, often you don't know that you have chronic inflammation.
So just a great example of that is asbestos workers.
I'll give you a historical example.
Yeah.
Asbestos workers were exposed to little particles of asbestos and they started having inflammation in their lung.
It wasn't until much later when they started having cough and all these other symptoms, lung symptoms, that they realized that they had chronic inflammation in the lungs.
Right.
The point that I'm trying to make is that there are many different kinds of inflammation.
Just like there are many different kinds of cancer, inflammation means it's a chronic or acute activation of the immune system.
And the immune system gets chronically or acutely activated and it starts sending signals.
Some people describe it as it's as if your immune system is saying your body's on fire.
There's a kind of inflammation which is brought on by certain kinds of immune cells.
Not every immune cell is the same.
There's another kind of inflammation that's brought on by other kinds of immune cells.
And so far, so far, we've been able to track down cancer risk to one kind of inflammation, not all kinds of inflammation, to one kind of inflammation.
That's a very big advance because you could now ask the question, if I can track that inflammation in your body, if I can make a test for that particular kind of inflammation in your body, can I make a potential test for future cancer?
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