The Power of Progress in Lung Cancer

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• 00:06The progress that we've made
• 00:08in cancer research over the
• 00:09last fifty years has been
• 00:10tremendous.
• 00:12Thirty, forty years ago, lung
• 00:14cancer was really considered incurable.
• 00:16Most patients presented with disease
• 00:18that couldn't really be treated
• 00:19with surgery,
• 00:20radiation, or chemotherapy.
• 00:22Medical oncology began here pretty
• 00:24much at Yale.
• 00:27And now in twenty twenty
• 00:29five,
• 00:30we're curing patients with this
• 00:31disease.
• 00:33We have targeted therapy, immunotherapy,
• 00:37something called cell therapy where
• 00:38we actually can alter cells
• 00:40to make them more interactive
• 00:41and more effective at killing
• 00:43tumors. We do molecular profiling,
• 00:45the best imaging tests so
• 00:47that we can develop the
• 00:48most specific therapies for our
• 00:50patients. We're screening them for
• 00:52cancer. We're looking for early
• 00:53onset cancer. We're finding the
• 00:55cancers earlier before they spread,
• 00:57and that really is having
• 00:58an even bigger effect on
• 01:00lung cancer. It's curing the
• 01:02disease. We have phenomenal science,
• 01:04we have phenomenal people trying
• 01:05to find new therapies for
• 01:06this disease.
• 01:07With all the faculty, staff,
• 01:09nurses,
• 01:10everyone that that works in
• 01:11this hospital is committed to
• 01:13taking care of patients with
• 01:14cancer. You feel that. It's
• 01:15palpable as you walk through
• 01:16the halls.
• 01:18And that really has been,
• 01:19cultivated here at Yale. But
• 01:21I think what we're seeing
• 01:22now in the future is
• 01:23that we are making a
• 01:24difference. But what it takes
• 01:25is it takes time, energy,
• 01:27dedication, and focus. It's such
• 01:29a team effort,
• 01:31to really build the research,
• 01:33the clinical care, the education
• 01:35to make Yale Cancer Center,
• 01:36Smile Cancer Hospital, one of
• 01:38the leaders of lung cancer
• 01:39care worldwide.