Jimmy Carter's 'Cancer Cure'
In August 2015, Jimmy Carter announced that he had a form of cancer that spread to his liver and brain. A few months later he reported the cancer was gone. How? Hosted by: Hank Green ----------...
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In August 2015, the 91-year-old former US President Jimmy Carter announced that he had a form of cancer that had spread to his liver and brain. The diagnosis is about as good as it sounds… which is to say, not good. But then, just a few months later, Carter reported that his cancer was gone, partially thanks to a pretty new treatment called immunotherapy. And in March, doctors determined that he didn’t need /any/ treatment anymore. So how did he recover so quickly? And what does that recovery mean for the future of cancer treatments? To understand what Carter’s treatment can teach us, you first have to know a little bit about cancer. Cells in your body normally grow and divide every so often to replace themselves. Cancer is what happens as a resu...
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In August 2015, the 91-year-old former US President Jimmy Carter announced that he had a form of cancer that had spread to his liver and brain. The diagnosis is about as good as it sounds… which is to say, not good. But then, just a few months later, Carter reported that his cancer was gone, partially thanks to a pretty new treatment called immunotherapy. And in March, doctors determined that he didn’t need /any/ treatment anymore. So how did he recover so quickly? And what does that recovery mean for the future of cancer treatments? To understand what Carter’s treatment can teach us, you first have to know a little bit about cancer. Cells in your body normally grow and divide every so often to replace themselves. Cancer is what happens as a resu...
