Emilia Javorsky
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 20 Mar
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the way we get here is through a whole bunch of different strategies that were very much tailored to the biology and evolutionary processes of that particular organism.
But in terms of human complexity, I think the best example of this is I highly recommend that everyone read Siddhartha Mukherjee's book, The Emperor of All Maladies.
This is a great book that really leans into this.
It's called A Biography of Cancer and leans into like the complexity of this and the fact that cancer is not a single disease, but it's actually like an evolutionary shadow of ourselves, right?
It is a dynamic evolutionary process.
I think in terms of the medical literature, the best summation of this has been this series of papers called the Hallmarks of Cancer.
And so this started in the year 2000, where scientists put together, like, what is cancer?
What are the hallmarks of things that we see in the disease processes that could be things we target to actually stop cancer or cure cancer?
And it started with six original hallmarks.
And then there was a revision in 2011.
And then again in 2022.
And what has happened is as we've learned more about biology, we realized, oh, it's not just a tumor.
It's also the immune system.
It's the environment around the tumor.
It's the fact that it's very adaptive and heterogeneous.
Okay, we have these microbes that live with us.
They actually play a role in this as well.
And the story of understanding cancer has just revealed
and ever-growing layers of complexity and ever-growing layers of individuality and how those pathways go wrong.
So the same way in our making mole rats and our elephants, right?
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