The Most Promising Cancer Treatments In a Century Have Arrived—But Not For Everyone
The Most Promising Cancer Treatments In a Century Have Arrived—But Not For Everyone
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 29, 201715m 11s
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Show Notes
In 1891, a New York doctor named William B. Coley injected a mixture of beef broth and Streptococcus bacteria into the arm of a 40-year-old Italian man with an inoperable neck tumor. The patient got terribly sick—developing a fever, chills, and vomiting. But a month later, his cancer had shrunk drastically. Coley would go on to repeat the procedure in more than a thousand patients, with wildly varying degrees of success, before the US Food and Drug Administration shut him down.
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