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Ninety-nine percent of cancer drugs never make it to tumors, getting washed out of the body before they have time to do their job. How can we better deliver life-saving drugs? Cancer researcher Joy Wolfram shares cutting-edge medical research into nanoparticles — tiny particles that could be used to deliver drugs accurately to tumors — and explains how they could keep drugs in the body longer to attack malignant cells.
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Paul Djerassi
November 7, 2019 at 6:11 am
I think using the Host nano particles is the way to go ie tailor made treatments pre market clinical trials will fast track the 12 year wait by the FDA,Thank you for a very interesting video,Djerassi.
holdmybeer
November 7, 2019 at 7:07 am
there will never be a cure. cures do not make profit $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
IvanAndreevich
November 7, 2019 at 7:11 am
Therein lies a major assumption that a funeral is worse than a wedding.
gameglimpses
November 7, 2019 at 7:21 am
Wow !
JakeArino
November 7, 2019 at 7:39 am
1:31 I think that’s a bit of a exaggeration. treatment and medicine for cancer is a lot better than it used to be. For most of human history up until 30 years ago almost any kind of cancer was pretty much a death sentence and you were dead within 6 months to a year. Today There’s a lot of cancers if you catch early enough you can live beyond 5 years to 10 years like prostrate, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, thyroid, throat cancer. Robert De Niro, micheal c hall, Elton John, Ronnie Wood and Ben stiller and many more people who we all know have had cancer beat it. If they had gotten it a couple decades ago they would of been dead in a year. Obviously we still have a long way to go in terms of treating and curing cancer and doctors need to get better at treating it because a lot of people do die from cancer still but it is better than it used to be. I do agree we haven’t made really any progress at treating really aggressive cancers like brain, liver or pancreatic cancer. Those cancers are basically a death sentence. But hopefully that won’t be the case soon.
Kyle Deboard
November 7, 2019 at 7:54 am
This is so stupid, they are going through all these hoops to create this amazing science, when we’ve been able to cure cancer with massive doses of vitamin C. We have known this for decades, but have chosen to bury it in favor of bilking cancer patients of billions with chemo treatments
abhishek panwar
November 7, 2019 at 10:03 am
How?
My father died in 2017 with metastatic peritoneal cancer , i get scared when i remember those last 8 months of his life.
Kyle Deboard
November 8, 2019 at 1:01 am
First and foremost, I am so sorry for your loss.
There were studies done in the 1970’s
where massive iv doses of vitamin c were given to terminally ill patients, some who had advanced cancers, to see if vitamin c could kill. The patients families were paid money in the event the study succeeded to find the terminal dose.
If you google vitamin c and cancer, you get many official medical sites saying the study was flawed.
What they don’t tell you is that it cured 74% of the cancer patients, and concluded the study, saying there is no terminal dose of vitamin c. The most common side effect being moderate to severe diarrhea.
Mass dosing vitamin c costs a few hundred dollars, and the average cost for chemo and surgery is 1 million or more.
abhishek panwar
November 8, 2019 at 1:31 am
Do you know someone who cured his/her cancer through this ??
Faiden
November 7, 2019 at 8:07 am
Nanoparticles? How about using mesenchymal stem cells to transport viruses attacking cancer stem cells instead of using nanoparticles? What are the benefits of nanoparticles? I mean MSC’s can even locate cancer cells by their surface markers.
Jonathan Van Hassel
November 7, 2019 at 8:51 am
I still cant believe it but my father has cancer
abhishek panwar
November 7, 2019 at 10:04 am
Would someone like to talk with me, i feel lonely and i am not doing great in life.
Also i lost my father in 2017 with cancer
Jay Marcum
November 7, 2019 at 10:40 am
Good Morning,
Let me pray for you , “ Father in Jesus’s name please comfort abhishek help him in his loneliness give him friend to support him , please let him know that you love him and that we both have a Heavenly Father who knows the difficulties we are going through and is with us .
Bless Him with who you are,”
Jay
321ozzy
November 7, 2019 at 1:14 pm
@abhishek… Go and ask for psychological help from a psychologist/tanatologist. Take action and take control of your future, that is probably the best and most meangful thing I can share with you.
Trish Coppin
November 8, 2019 at 2:40 am
abhishek panwar you will be ok- lots of people are thinking about you
Joe Musashi
November 7, 2019 at 10:12 am
Wow, every five seconds someone dies of
Rennis
November 8, 2019 at 5:42 am
cancer
techwg
November 7, 2019 at 11:29 am
GCMAF is a cure for cancer by everything I have read. Where is science with this discovery? At least in the UK and France it is being suppressed by laws and regulatory agencies because chemotherapy makes too much money to go away to natural alternatives. Wake me up when cancer scientists get on this and force the world to become aware of it. Wake me up when that happens. Till then, I remain sceptical as to the genuine things science cares about, because it sure seems like money is the priority, not health.
white hanzo
November 7, 2019 at 12:18 pm
nanoparticles? are you saying that now we can create Gundam 00?
Clement Lumumba
November 7, 2019 at 12:57 pm
Our genes are super defective. Untill we find out how to repair our damaged genes, cancer will still take so many lives.
Pranav Dave
November 7, 2019 at 4:12 pm
Clement Lumumba CRISPR
321ozzy
November 7, 2019 at 1:15 pm
Prevention is better than cure, it is about time the “food”-industry is exposed to their cancer fueling processed products that cause cancer. Besides chemo therapy, energy healing and other thousands-of-years-old practices are to be promoted once again.
Adarsh KV
November 7, 2019 at 2:01 pm
And they end up in tumor
Flash Fast
November 7, 2019 at 2:22 pm
So sad, i’m just hoping that you become stronger to overcome the impediments.
When i hear you talking about failure, i think someone needs to listen to this
Misha S
November 7, 2019 at 3:34 pm
TED, more of science vids like this one, please.
Game Center
November 7, 2019 at 4:41 pm
You need to learn “neslican tay”s life.
Pollen Applebee
November 7, 2019 at 5:05 pm
“How X COULD treat cancer” is the name of countless TED talks over the years, almost none of which have actually provided any real breakthrough or benefit to any actual cancer patients. This industry is rife with ideas, but barren of anything other than “more surgery, more drugs that may not work” in implementation. I applaud the work being done, but am not at all optimistic that any of this will do anything for an actual cancer patient within the next 20 years.
like tobi
November 7, 2019 at 5:27 pm
I thought the same thing. I have heard about so many “breakthroughs” but nothing has happened yet. I don’t know if this is just a rumor, but why would the pharma industry even want a cure against cancer. They earn billions with existing drugs.
TeaSipper
November 8, 2019 at 8:21 am
It really depends on the cancer. Breast cancer now has a 5 year survival rate of 90% and a 10 year survival rate at 83%. Glioblastoma has 5 year survival rate of effectively 0%
Cancer is a catch all term for several dozen major categories covering hundreds of different diseases with a literal infinite number of possible variants. There is more genetic diversity within the cancer cells of a single stage 4 cancer patient than there is in all the HIV viruses in the world.
Progress is being made, but this problem is so hard, we will be fighting this broad category of diseases for another century.
Pollen Applebee
November 8, 2019 at 12:41 pm
@TeaSipper Sure, all I said is that the “breakthrough” TED talks you see which promise new treatments for large numbers of patients have never panned out, or only helped a tiny fraction of a fraction, much less than implied by the talks.
Agni Kai
November 9, 2019 at 1:43 am
Pollen Applebee big pharma already has a cure for cancer. But it’s not getting out since they’re making big money.
George Ockham
November 7, 2019 at 7:46 pm
There has already been a talk about using body’s own immune system to destroy cancer.
Grzegorz Szewczyk
November 8, 2019 at 8:57 pm
It’s slightly different situation, this is more about “fooling” immune system to stop it from attacking something which is recognized as foreign by default. Using own immune system to destroy cancer usually involves modified T-cells harvested from the patient or close relative (please check a documentary called “War in the blood” hopefully is still available on yt. Here we rather have some sort of “encapsulation” for anti-cancer drugs, to help them being delivered via demanding body “piping” into the hostile, immunosupresive tumor environment.
YOU niverse
November 7, 2019 at 8:56 pm
Love this 💜💜💜
Steven Brown
November 7, 2019 at 9:37 pm
Since the 80s food companys have used nano particles.Artificial intelligent pieces come together in the body to form machinery and beacons that can be traced from satellites and activated or have programing built in.Fermented chloridal algi removes metals from your body.First use charcoal tabs for 5 to 7 days wait 2 days then start taking the algi.Diatamatious earth excelent follow up.
Dino Nucci
November 8, 2019 at 12:19 am
BUT do they take Glock mags?
Sabri puff
November 8, 2019 at 2:24 pm
Search Louise Hay, she cured her own cancer with no drugs but pure energy. Joy didn’t fail, just proves science and medicine can reach a certain limit.
Lance Flanagan
November 8, 2019 at 5:05 pm
The importance of this subject isn’t lost on me but I must say, she’s ridiculously attractive.
Jarkko Aitti
November 10, 2019 at 9:51 pm
“i failed”, “my lab”. i wonder if her underlings want to give a cancer to her 🙂
Lunareon
November 8, 2019 at 6:48 pm
This method still doesn’t solve the main problem of current chemotherapy, which is the problem of cancer drugs destroying both healthy and cancer cells. Circulating the drugs in the body for a longer time also means they will cause more damage to healthy cells. Nanoparticles could be part of the solution, yes, if paired with some kind of a mechanism which directs them to the tumor and cancer cells.
Fran
November 8, 2019 at 9:04 pm
How about bacterial resistance. They say it’s going to cause more deaths than cancer soon. But pharmaceutical industry don’t care because the profit is not so high…
you don't know me
November 9, 2019 at 12:04 pm
she’s 13 from House MD, isn’t she
Gladys Farmer Kitchen 8GladysWorld8
November 10, 2019 at 6:08 am
I am so sorry for your friend. She’s so young. Thanks for your research on nanoparticles to fight cancer. We need your help.
Nitesh Patel
November 10, 2019 at 9:12 am
The host is really hot.