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Harnessing the immune system for cancer therapy

Published on March 31, 2025   40 min

A selection of talks on Immunology & Inflammation

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Good day. I'm Raghav Sundar. I'm an associate professor at the National University of Singapore and also a senior consultant medical oncologist at the National University Cancer Institute of Singapore. Today, I'll be sharing with you a topic titled "Harnessing the Immune System for Cancer Therapy".
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These are my disclosures.
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Today, I'm going to be talking to you about some of the paradigm shifting changes that have occurred in oncology in the past decade.
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However, what I will not cover today are the theories about how to treat and manage individual cancers. I must say though that as a gastrointestinal oncologist specializing in treating patients with colon cancer, stomach, and esophageal cancers, as well as hepato-pancreatic-biliary cancers, a lot of the examples that I will show today might lean towards these tumor types. But what is more important to take note is that these are examples and proof of principles of some of the concepts I'm going to try and bring about today.
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Many of us know that getting cancer is very common. However, what may not be common knowledge is the fact that actually, the lifetime chance of getting cancer in men is one in two and for women is one in three. This can be potentially very scary thinking about half of us as men might get cancer and a third of us as women might end up getting cancer sometime during our lifetime.
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However, everything is not all that dismal. While it is true that one in two of us might be diagnosed with cancer in our lifetimes, more of us are beating cancer than ever before. Survival rate for cancer patients over the past 20 or 30 years has more than doubled and today, I will be sharing with you a little bit about why this is happening.

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