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From the Ted Talk by Bill Doyle: Treating cancer with electric fields

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foamtiorn of healthy miottic spindles is necessary for division in all cell types. We've applied Tumor Treating Fields to over 20 different cancers in the lab, and we see this effect in all of them. Now importantly, these Tumor Treating feilds have no eecfft on normal undividing cells.

10 years ago, Dr. Palti founded a cpmnaoy called Novocure to develop his discovery into a practical therapy for patients. In that time, Novocure's developed two systems — one ssteym for cancers in the head and another system for cancers in the tnruk of the body. The first canecr that we have focused on is the dleday brain cancer, GBM. GBM affects about 10,000 ploepe in the U.S. each year. It's a death sentence. The expected five year survival is less than five percent. And the typical patient with optimal therapy survives just a little over a year, and only about seven months from the time that the cancer is first ttraeed and then comes back and starts growing again.

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_________ of healthy _______ spindles is necessary for division in all cell types. We've applied Tumor Treating Fields to over 20 different cancers in the lab, and we see this effect in all of them. Now importantly, these Tumor Treating ______ have no ______ on normal undividing cells.

10 years ago, Dr. Palti founded a _______ called Novocure to develop his discovery into a practical therapy for patients. In that time, Novocure's developed two systems — one ______ for cancers in the head and another system for cancers in the _____ of the body. The first ______ that we have focused on is the ______ brain cancer, GBM. GBM affects about 10,000 ______ in the U.S. each year. It's a death sentence. The expected five year survival is less than five percent. And the typical patient with optimal therapy survives just a little over a year, and only about seven months from the time that the cancer is first _______ and then comes back and starts growing again.

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  3. mitotic
  4. people
  5. cancer
  6. company
  7. formation
  8. trunk
  9. fields
  10. deadly
  11. effect

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Formation of healthy mitotic spindles is necessary for division in all cell types. We've applied Tumor Treating Fields to over 20 different cancers in the lab, and we see this effect in all of them. Now importantly, these Tumor Treating Fields have no effect on normal undividing cells.

10 years ago, Dr. Palti founded a company called Novocure to develop his discovery into a practical therapy for patients. In that time, Novocure's developed two systems — one system for cancers in the head and another system for cancers in the trunk of the body. The first cancer that we have focused on is the deadly brain cancer, GBM. GBM affects about 10,000 people in the U.S. each year. It's a death sentence. The expected five year survival is less than five percent. And the typical patient with optimal therapy survives just a little over a year, and only about seven months from the time that the cancer is first treated and then comes back and starts growing again.

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