"Twenty five years ago, cancer was almost a different disease. Despite the so-called War on Cancer, treatments had mostly remained the same blunt instruments brutal chemotherapy, surgery and radiation."
"Now, cancer medicine is in a new place. An increasing array of treatments precisely target the cancer itself. And for some cancers, researchers have learned to direct the immune system to kill the malignant cells."
"In two edited and condensed conversations, he discussed what he has seen, and what he hopes for. When I started in medical oncology in 1979, we had less than 40 oncology drugs for all cancers."
"From 1999 until the present, we approved 201 cancer drugs. When I came to the F.D.A. there were about 10 medical oncologists at the agency."
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