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From the Ted Talk by Adam de la Zerda: We can start winning the war against cancer

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Now, this is a really a wonderful technology. For the first time it aolweld us to look into someone's body without picking up each and every one of the cells and ptitnug them under the microscope, but in a nivnsvaoine way allowing us to look into someone's body and ask, "Hey, has the cancer metastasized? Where is it?" And the PET scans here are showing you very clearly where are these hot sotps, where is the tumor.

So as miraculous as this might seem, unfortunately, well, it's not that great. You see, those small little hot spots there. Can anyone geuss how many cancer cells are in any one of these tumors? So it's about 100 million cancer cells, and let me make sure that this number sunk in. In each and every one of these small little blips that you're seeing on the image, there needs to be at least 100 million cacner cells in oedrr for it to be detected. Now, if that seemed to you like a very large number, it is a very large number. This is in fact an incredibly lgrae number, because what we really need in order to pick up something early enough to do something about it, to do something meaningful about it, well, we need to pick up tumors that are a thousand cells in size, and idalley just a handful of cells in size. So we're clearly pretty far away from this.

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Now, this is a really a wonderful technology. For the first time it _______ us to look into someone's body without picking up each and every one of the cells and _______ them under the microscope, but in a ___________ way allowing us to look into someone's body and ask, "Hey, has the cancer metastasized? Where is it?" And the PET scans here are showing you very clearly where are these hot _____, where is the tumor.

So as miraculous as this might seem, unfortunately, well, it's not that great. You see, those small little hot spots there. Can anyone _____ how many cancer cells are in any one of these tumors? So it's about 100 million cancer cells, and let me make sure that this number sunk in. In each and every one of these small little blips that you're seeing on the image, there needs to be at least 100 million ______ cells in _____ for it to be detected. Now, if that seemed to you like a very large number, it is a very large number. This is in fact an incredibly _____ number, because what we really need in order to pick up something early enough to do something about it, to do something meaningful about it, well, we need to pick up tumors that are a thousand cells in size, and _______ just a handful of cells in size. So we're clearly pretty far away from this.

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Now, this is a really a wonderful technology. For the first time it allowed us to look into someone's body without picking up each and every one of the cells and putting them under the microscope, but in a noninvasive way allowing us to look into someone's body and ask, "Hey, has the cancer metastasized? Where is it?" And the PET scans here are showing you very clearly where are these hot spots, where is the tumor.

So as miraculous as this might seem, unfortunately, well, it's not that great. You see, those small little hot spots there. Can anyone guess how many cancer cells are in any one of these tumors? So it's about 100 million cancer cells, and let me make sure that this number sunk in. In each and every one of these small little blips that you're seeing on the image, there needs to be at least 100 million cancer cells in order for it to be detected. Now, if that seemed to you like a very large number, it is a very large number. This is in fact an incredibly large number, because what we really need in order to pick up something early enough to do something about it, to do something meaningful about it, well, we need to pick up tumors that are a thousand cells in size, and ideally just a handful of cells in size. So we're clearly pretty far away from this.

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