How are cancer survivors helping us all beat cancer?
Cancer survivors are helping us all beat cancer, because new research on what they did to fight their cancer is helping create breakthroughs. In this video, oncology researcher Kelly Turner, PhD, explains the value of studying cancer survivors.
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What we learn from studying survivors is that regardless of the cause, there are things that you can do right now to help your immune system repair all
the damage that's been done. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Cancer survivors are a wonderful group to study. And that's what I study. I study, actually, cancer survivors who
are beating incredible odds. And it's really important that we begin paying as much attention to survivors
as we do to the people who are getting sick. So up until about 20 years ago, most research was focused on trying to figure out
what was causing cancer, why people were getting sick. And we've come a long way. But guess what? We now know that cancer is a really complex disease.
It can be caused by viruses, bacteria, toxins, genetic mutation, and a whole host of other things.
And so what we learn from studying survivors is that regardless of the cause, there are things that you can do right now
to help your immune system repair all the damage that's been done by these cells that are replicating like crazy.
And so when I study survivors who beat incredible odds-- now, these are people who are sent home on hospice and they're told by their doctors there's nothing more we
can do-- well, some of these people turn their cancer around and go into remission. By studying them, I am figuring out clues
to how the immune system can be stimulated enough to overcome cancer.
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