What technological revolutions are needed for the most likely curative breakthrough in cancer treatment?
What disruptive technological revolutions are most needed to achieve a truly curative breakthrough? For example, universal CAR-T, personalized neoantigen vaccines, in situ gene editing, and new mechanisms to overcome drug resistance and metastasis. Please express your own opinions
Prof. Ni
1) The essence of cancer is the heterogeneity of various malignant tumors caused by gene mutations. To conquer all heterogeneous solid malignancies, first we have to homogenize them into a common target so that they can be treated or cured by using by the same drug or therapy, which may allow for safe, effective, broad-spectrum, and precise anti-cancer treatment.