Focus On Cancer

S2E8 | Advances in medicine: Progress, and the promise


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Gene-editing tools that make the body smarter in fighting cancer. Robots that help surgeons more precisely excise a tumor. Screening technologies that can spot lung tumors the size of a grain of rice. This gee-whiz age of innovation and technological genius looks a lot different than the horse-and-buggy era of the early 1900s when today’s everyday essentials like anesthesia and antiseptic surgeries were only beginning to catch on. And there are even more groundbreaking opportunities on the horizon. On today’s episode of Focus on Cancer, our host, Pat Basu, MD, MBA, President & CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (CTCA), welcomes entrepreneur and technology-sector leader John Bardis to map out the progress, and the promise, of technological advances—yesterday, today and tomorrow.

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Focus On CancerBy Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA)