The Evolution Of Cancer Treatment
b'Recently, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a first-of-its-kind cancer therapy to treat aggresive forms of skin cancer. It has us thinking of the long history of cancer. One of the first recorded mentions of cancer appears in an ancient Egyptian text from around 3000 B.C. And although we now know much more about how cancer begins \\u2014 as a series of mutations in someone\'s DNA \\u2014 it\'s a disease people are still grappling with how to cure cancers today. This episode, cancer epidemiologist Mariana Stern talks about cancer history and treatment today \\u2014 plus, why some people are more prone to certain cancers and why that might matter for curing them.
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