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by dlo 3216 days ago
23:10: "Cancer is not one specific disease. Cancer is actually many diseases put together. In fact, cancer is many rare diseases -- if you take cancer to the limit, it's likely the case that the same cancer has never occurred twice.

"If you look at the genetic footprint of cancer, even within the same patient -- as I'll explain in just a moment -- you get very different cancers from the same originating source. And I'll explain why that is. That's why this sort of very information-driven approach to curing cancer is absolutely critical."

26:29: "... the genome has syntax. And in fact, it has a semantics. And beyond that, it has an instruction set too."

30:00: "So when you're fighting cancer, you're fighting evolution itself inside your own body."