It takes about a year for pancreatic cancer to go from stage one to stage four. With improved biomarker detection in biannual blood tests, I think we’d make a lot of headway to earlier detection, with CRISPR for (more effective) immunotherapy treatment (vs surgery and chemo).
Maybe. But earlier detection isn't the panacea that we thought it might be in cancer.
The problem is--- staging isn't independent of the cancer's aggressiveness. If you detect a cancer at stage 2, it may be "earlier" detection, or it may be a much less aggressive cancer than one that would have reached stage 4 by the same point.
I also will miss him. He and Jeopardy were a fixture in our home, and life. What a great human.
I'm willing to work on this. I have lots of relevant experience, and a can do attitude. I've tackled (mostly successfully) similar challenges like artificial hearts, dialysis, AI and surgical robots. Coincidentally I'm giving a talk on making an artificial heart in 45 mins at the hackaday remoticon: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/remoticon-tickets-115886905855
I'm confident we could solve this problem. Lets do it.
1. how do we match talented people like you with organizations who could use help?
2. how can we model medicine to be more like open-source, where talented individuals can contribute in surgical ways, in case they can't afford to quit their jobs and focus on healthcare 100%?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813368/