Cancer is the number two cause of death worldwide, and despite hundreds of billions of dollars

spent in the past 40, 50 years, there's still no cure just treatments.

And the go-to treatments, although there are new experimental treatments, but the go-to

treatments remain chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery.

And they're often criticized because they're so aggressive, but the truth is, when cancer

is detected early, most forms of cancer, even the most lethal, are very, very treatable.

They're very manageable.

Maybe the solution is not to find a cure, but to find early detection and early treatments,

which perhaps could be more gentle.

It's not the answer anyone's looking for, but maybe it is the solution to the treatment

of cancer.

I guess on this week's podcast is on the forefront of early detection, which is still

quite expensive, pretty complicated, and not that accessible.

But the question is, what happens five years from now, what happens 10 years from now,

is it possible that in a routine blood test, during your annual checkup, that you could

get a comprehensive cancer screening, not just a mammogram, not just a colonoscopy,

but a cancer screening that could potentially test for the 20-plus different types of cancers

that you could potentially be suffering from?

I think this is a really interesting area of breakthrough in terms of genomic medicine

and health span, excited to learn more.

As you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show.

I'm a yoga teacher and trainer.

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