German-American entrepreneur Cyriac Roeding read a profile of Sam Gambhir, a physician and scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, in a magazine. In the article, Gambhir described how he had devoted his career to early cancer detection, only to lose his teenage son Milan to a highly aggressive brain tumor in 2015.
One day, Gambhir pitched his own idea—a poignant one. “Sam asked a simple but profound question,” Roeding remembers. “He said, ‘What if we stopped searching for cancer altogether; what if we didn’t look anymore? What if, instead, we forced the cancer to reveal itself?’” Earli’s approach essentially forces the cancer to reveal itself. Bioengineered DNA is injected into the body; when it enters cancer cells, it forces them to produce a synthetic biomarker not normally found in humans—something like limonene, a chemical found in the peel of citrus fruits. If subsequent breath or blood tests find traces of that biomarker, it could be a sign of cancer.
I don’t know, early, late, it seems to me death is invariably certain within at best a handful of years. Those years defined of cancer identity and lifestyle. I will never be treated for cancer.
100$ says this will lead to over diagnosis and no overall survival benefit.
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So they can program tumors to produce bio markers, if only they could program them to self destruct.
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