64 - Azra Raza - A Better Way to Fight Cancer

For more about Azra, see her website: https://azraraza.com/

The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last is available here: https://www.amazon.com/First-Cell-Human-Pursuing-Cancer/dp/1541699521

Her book with Sara Suleri Goodyear, Ghalib and the Epistemologies of Elegance is available here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7502220-ghalib

Her physician profile can be found here:
https://cancer.columbia.edu/azra-raza-md

Follow Azra on Twitter: @AzraRazaMD
Further References
George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Story of Provincial Life (1871–2)

The complete poems of Emily Dickinson (first published 1890) are available online here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12242/12242-h/12242-h.htm

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2011)

Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897)

Samuel Johnson, The Rambler (1750):
https://www.johnsonessays.com/category/the-rambler/

The Crown, “Aberfan” (BBC)

Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene (2016) and The Emperor of All Maladies (2010)

Timestamps
Beginning: introduction and Azra reads from The First Cell
6:15 How Azra became interested in medicine and in oncology in particular
14:32 The evolutionary model of cancer’s development in the body
23:50 Cancer and critical systems; the MIST of aging
31:54 Peto’s paradox
41:45 Why cell culture and animal testing methods don’t work
47:41 The immune system, CAR-T treatments, B cells, checkpoint inhibitors
1:00:50 Azra’s personalised approach and how she came to develop it
1:05:59 New, more radical earlier detection methods
1:21:37 The oncology think tank
1:22:48 Monitoring technologies
1:29:32 Azra’s relationship with literature