By all logical reasoning, elephants should be developing a tremendous amount of cancer, and in fact, should be extinct by now due to such a high risk for cancer, we think that making more p53 is nature's way of keeping this species alive. Joshua Schiffman More Quotes by Joshua Schiffman More Quotes From Joshua Schiffman This is where the field is moving as a whole, if we can understand how these genomic changes are contributing to... cancer resistance, then we'll be able to start thinking about how do we translate this to our patients ? Joshua Schiffman top-news When we put on our clinician's hat... do we look for drugs that are affecting the same pathways ? evolution has been at work evolving cancer-resistant organisms for... millions of years. Joshua Schiffman top-news This will not be the final story. Joshua Schiffman top-news It's as if the elephants said, 'It's so important that we don't get cancer, we're going to kill this cell and start over fresh,' if you kill the damaged cell, it's gone, and it can't turn into cancer. This may be more effective of an approach to cancer prevention than trying to stop a mutated cell from dividing and not being able to completely repair itself. Joshua Schiffman world Nature has already figured out how to prevent cancer, it's up to us to learn how different animals tackle the problem so we can adapt those strategies to prevent cancer in people. Joshua Schiffman world
