“Small molecules penetrate the tumor very efficiently, but are also removed very efficiently. Larger molecules penetrate more slowly, but they stay in the tissue longer, giving the patient a greater concentration of the drug. If you balance the two factors with a precise weight, you get optimal drug concentration.”
Ashutosh Chilkoti
“Back when I was 26 years old, I had a brain tumor. I had it removed. They told me it would never come back. Four years later, it came back.”
Kris Biagiotti
“The doctors presumed my son had a tumor, but they were not very sure.”
Yanto Situmorang
“But they never got that far with the gall bladder. They found the tumor when they did a CT scan. That's when they found his gallstones, but they also found this cancer.”
Susan Unser
“It decreases the production of estrogen which we think feeds the tumor.”
Dr. Merla Puray
“One of the potential uses we envision is to use the ART treatment as a way to use tumor components to immunize cancer patients against their own cancer cells, ... The current problem with this treatment strategy is that the tumor gives off a variety of soluble products which we don't fully understand, but which we know wreck havoc on the immune system by suppressing its various components. If we can use the ART drugs to increase the number of newly produced T cells in cancer patients first, we can potentially improve the likelihood of getting a cancer vaccine to work.”
David McKean
“The future of radiation tends to be what we call stereotactic: radiation, which focuses on the tumor and applies large doses at one time as opposed to traditional radiation which is small doses over a longer time, ... There is a gamma knife that's dedicated to treating brain lesions where, instead of radiating the brain in a three-week period, it's a one-time focused, high-powered type treatment.”
David Greenwald
