Short spoken piece arguing that cancer lacks a single universal target or treatment; each patient and tumor is unique (tumor heterogeneity) with multiple pathways, so clinicians should personalize therapy by treating the person and their environment to make them inhospitable to cancer and address upstream obstacles that drive hallmark behaviors.
But what I have learned is that there isn't one. One target, there isn't one treatment. That every person is unique, absolutely unique, and their needs are unique at different times. And that even in every. Any tumor has multiple cancers, multiple personalities. It's called hetero genicity. So it's like multiple pathways and processes happening at once. You can't possibly target them all at once. So instead, focusing and treating cancer, we focus on treating the person to make them and their environment as inhospitable as possible. To hallmarks, taking off and expressing. And so that's where, even where I look at your world, you coming in as the expert that you are, helps remove some of the obstacles or helps address some of the obstacles that actually may be driving forces to some of those hallmarks. That really helps my patients when they've kind of addressed all these other entry points.
