And then we do a clinical trial for a drug for lung cancer and one for prostate cancer and one for breast cancer, and we treat these as if they're separate diseases and that this way of dividing them had something to do with what actually went wrong.

The researcher suggested promising directions for treating the cancer.

I was told you don't medicate.

The doctor cured him of his cancer.

Yet comparatively, we have about a dozen targeted medications.

And that this, in fact, will be the way that we treat cancer in the future.

And we are the cure.

The cure is nearly complete.

The rat's body has rejected the cure.

We would want to avoid that path.

And this is the 21st century.

For instance, we're setting up clinics in Africa where we're going to be giving free antiretroviral drugs, free TB treatment and free malaria treatment.

She's on medication. My mom's gonna kill me.

And you know... before the medication kicks in...

And best of all, we were able, in the last 50 years, to invent drug treatments and psychological treatments.

I had to learn where did this come from.

DNA researcher Andrew Hessel has pointed out quite rightly that if you can use cancer treatments, modern cancer treatments, to go after one cell while leaving all the other cells around it intact, then you can also go after any one person's cell.

In 2002, they were facing a different battle.

We have yet to discover an effective remedy for cancer.

this is a curable disease, with present medicine and present technology.

And this inadequacy of cancer medicine really hit home when my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

So, why don't the doctors tell us this?

If the cure works, we both win.

And the cure must require some as well.

You know that thing they say, What's worse?

You might know that chemistry is the science of making molecules or, to my taste, new drugs for cancer.

Bond the cure to the contagion.

And the translations of the surviving texts say,

You...

Eleanor, you'd be better off with cancer, because cancer is easier to cure than schizophrenia.

Now, I'm not anti hospital.

I mean, this works as long as it's to correct others.

Sweat lodge?

Look, I need more time to make the cure.

But I think this is actually just the beginning of how we're going to treat cancer.

And so I believe that this will be the way that cancer will be treated in the future.

Get a trauma surgeon and a vascular surgeon.

It was all she had until the treatments.

We treat many more children then we actually work with.

And that's when it gets interesting, when we start to crowdsource that information.

And the good news was that the FDA was running a clinical trial to figure out whether interfere on and medication that was originally approved for hairy cell leukemia was going to be successful for treating hepatitis C.

Here we are at TED, and all the time we are very conscious of the huge challenges that human society has right now curing cancer, understanding the brain for Alzheimer's, understanding the economy to make it a little bit more stable, understanding how the world works.

He was undergoing a treatment chemotherapy treatments and there's a related treatment called brachytherapy, where tiny, radioactive seeds are placed into the body to treat cancerous tumors.

They might be able to cure you.

Those people came for treatment too.