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Tyler Jacks Biography

Tyler Jacks is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an HHMI investigator, and director of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, which brings together biologists and engineers to improve detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.

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Cancer is complex and therefore there is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

Cancer, Complex, Fit, Size, Solution

The challenge is that if you stimulate your immune system, it might get over-stimulated. And it might actually start causing harm to normal cells in your body. So we have to work a balance between attacking the cancer and not attacking yourself.

Attacking, Cancer, Cells, Challenges, Immune, Work

Actually, as cancers develop in an individual patient, an individual cancer cell might be different - a little bit different - from the cell that's sitting right next to it. And so there's heterogeneity, we call it. It makes the problem that much harder.

Cancer, Cancers, Cells, Different, Harder

We certainly do have to be realistic about where we stand. It is the case that cancer is the second-leading cause of deaths in the U. S. , in fact, in nearly half the states it's the leading cause of death. And we have a ways to go.

Cancer, Half, Realistic, Stand, Way, Ways

We are living through a remarkable time where we're translating this investment that we've made in cancer science to new treatments. And they're benefiting a large number of people and they will benefit many more in the years to come.

Benefit, Cancer, Large, Numbers, Translating, Years

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R. H. Tawney

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Des MacHale

African Spir

African Spir

Dick Thornburgh

Dick Thornburgh

Clancy Brown

Clancy Brown

Matthew Gregory Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis

Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford

Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford

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Jim Steinman

Ruben Blades

Ruben Blades

Peter Roebuck

Peter Roebuck

Gladys Mitchell

Gladys Mitchell

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Lolo Jones