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Inequality is a big issue and it comes from

a lot of different angles, affects people differently

and so we need a bunch of different solutions

and we need a renewed societal focus

on this as a problem that we need to solve

and that involves many different solutions,

many different actors doing many different things.

The CLIMB Initiative is really an effort to try to,

both on the research side and the policy side,

to understand the role of colleges in social mobility.

So we can look and see are there colleges

that admit a lot of relatively poor students

and elevate those students to the middle class

and then can we connect that to certain things

that are happening at those colleges

that might carry lessons for other schools.

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A STAR IS BORN「short documentary」 - Duration: 2:15.

It's scary. We dont know...

...If they don't like it. It's...

It's my life.

I want to make music,

spread joy.

I want to go on tour,

make some friends.

But it's really sad...

Even if I do my best, some people will leave us.

I am alone, every night.

Everyone will leave, right ?

They will leave.

They touche and talk to me all day, but then...

It's total silence.

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Thai Chicken Curry Recipe

2 sliced chicken thighs

Garlic powder

Onion powder

Salt

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Vegetable oil

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Simmer on low-medium heat

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What is Cryptocurrency? - A Super SIMPLE Explanation For Beginners - Duration: 21:44.

we're not guys baby Gabe Ekemezie here and welcome to my channel what is

cryptocurrency why's everybody like up and about about this kind of stuff if

you are a beginner and you have no idea what's going on in this space I'm gonna

help you understand what's going on so you could have the knowledge that you

need in order to figure out what you want to do and whether you want to be a

part of this or not so in this video what we're going to be covering is the

very basic question which is what the heck is cryptocurrency in the first

place why is cryptocurrency this global phenomena that has people rushed into it

and arose and uh half of them don't even understand themselves what's going on

now my goal by the end of this video is to break it down so well that you're

gonna understand it without a doubt so let me know in the comment section after

this video how I did let's jump right into it if you were to google

cryptocurrency right now on Google what would you find on Google it pulls up a

definition that sounds something like this

cryptocurrency is a digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to

regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of

funds operating independently of a central bank what what does that even

mean the way my friend you're in the right place if that sounded like

gibberish let's break this stuff down so I wanted to properly define what could

go crises let's take it back way back to when it was first created by a guy named

Satoshi Nakamoto that's atashi when he first created cryptocurrency and he kind

of did it by accident he actually released a PSA basically saying hey I

created a peer-to-peer electronic cash sharing system so what does that mean

well it means basically what it sounds like peer-to-peer meaning that he

created some kind of system where a person could share money with somebody

and you don't have to go through a middleman or some other organization or

agency in order to do that so for example if you wanted to send money to

your friend or if you're in that area like me and you need to send money back

home to your family and relatives instead of having to wire money and go

through Western Union or go through some kind of Bank or go through these

third-party apps like PayPal and all that kind of stuff you can literally

just send the money directly to them which actually sounds pretty good but

most importantly what Stassi did was he created

a decentralized caste system okay so what does decentralized mean so

essential eyes system is basically what you're used to in the centralized system

there's basically a entity that helps to regulate and make sure everything is

going smoothly and to plan and we'll say for this example banks or a centralized

system let's say for example you want to give me 50 bucks thank you very much and

a centralized system or a bank what you would do is you would take that money

from your account and send it to me and it would be approved and the centralized

system is able to keep track of what's going on they're able to see that you

had 50 books and then now you gave me 50 bucks so now my account is 50 bucks

richer you're 50 bucks pour the transaction

went through and everybody's happy and we go our separate ways a centralized

system can also regulate in the sense that say I had a hundred dollars in my

account and I wanted to take that to go buy some shoes and those shoes cost a

hundred dollars so once I purchase those shoes that cost $100 the centralized

system tells me hey you now have zero dollars in your account good job you're

broke as well but in a decentralized system it's decentralized so there's no

governing entity that's there to really regulate and make sure everything is

going as planned and that's what's actually created now I know it kind of

sounds like why would we want to do that that kind of sounds very chaotic but

here we go I'm gonna explain just a second see the problem that needs to be

solved with this new decentralized frontier was how do you regulate people

who don't have anybody regulating them right and one of the major problems is

how do you stop from double spending meaning let's take that example of me

having a hundred dollars and wanting to buy some shoes when I purchased those

shoes in a centralized system the bank for example it tells me that I now have

$0 but in a decentralized position there's nobody there to tell me that I

have zero books in fact there's no one there to really tell me I even spent the

money so I can buy the hundred dollar shoes and they say no I didn't spend a

bunch of dollars and I'll just go buy some more shoes and buy some more

stuffing and really there's no law and order to the whole thing in the same

sense how do you regulate transactions between us like say for example I want

to give you 50 bucks you're welcome but an essential

system when I give you the 50 bucks the transaction is approved there's a

history of activity there's - 50 bucks in my account 50 plus on your account

everyone goes away happy but in a decentralized system I could just give

you 25 bucks and say I give you the 50 bucks and there's nothing you can really

do about it like waiting that I do to come to my house and beat me up for the

other 25 no you can't cuz you don't know where I live you see where this see what

the problem isn't this like that's why it's kind of like the wild wild west out

here so how do you solve this problem this this is all sounding bad like very

bad so in a centralized system where the bank is kind of like judge and jury and

a decentralized system we as the peers or the members do that job and how that

works is in a decentralized system everybody knows everything all

transactions all accounts it's common knowledge and it's out in the open so

everybody in this decentralized system can see transactions and see future

transactions and can really keep a count of everything going on because

everything is out in the open because there's no one thing that keeps all that

information but the problem with that is if me and you are supposed to be the

ones regulating me and you that's probably not good either

because how do you keep somebody from cheating the system or how do you keep a

law in order because if one person disagrees on a transaction like the

earlier example when I said I was gonna give you $50 but I only gave you 25 the

whole system will collapse on itself because there's no entity that really

step in and say no I was wrong like with other 50 bucks or not even let the

transaction go in the first place because I don't have to be bucks to give

you so the question is how do you keep a consensus of people or pierced honest in

a system where there is no central authority some dumber and everybody

that's what's the Tosti discovered and actually fixed with cryptocurrency okay

awesome so what is cryptocurrency now hold on we're getting that we're getting

there before I can break down what exactly cryptocurrency is we have to

actually break down the terms crypto and currency and trust me I'm doing this for

you because like we're beginners here I'm not stalling I just need to break

this down so you can over understand this and I want you to get

this so let's start with what exactly is currency so when you boil it down to its

pure essence of what currency really is to the very bottom of the pot all

currency really is is limited entries in a database that can't be changed unless

certain requirements or specific conditions are met and I know that

didn't make any sense so let me explain so the three main components when it

comes to currency accounts balances in databases and to break this down let's

talk in the centralize world so you kind of understand what I'm saying for us

before we bring it to the digital crypto world right so if you have a bank

account or even if you don't we have a couple of things in common we have

accounts we have balances and we have a database think about the money in your

bank account right now whatever it is all that is is a bunch of numbers right

there just entry points entry points in a database my bank is a database that

holds my account and my account holds my bound just like your bank if that one

has your account as well as your balance now when you think about the money in

your account what is that really all that is is just a bunch of numbers right

and you just hope that number grows every day all those numbers are entries

in a database or a numbers in a bank that can only be changed when certain

specific conditions are met meaning your number and your bank account is only

gonna change unless you ask for withdrawal deposit some money have some

money sent to you or get charged overdraft fees by the bank cuz you're

broken you just you don't have that right now trust me mine Stan we've all

been there and that's it when you boil it dances very basic they're just entry

points in the database that can only be changed when certain specific conditions

are met so you can't have $100 in your account and then one day wake up and

have $10,000 in your account if you didn't deposit nine thousand nine

hundred dollars in there because it doesn't meet the specific requirements

your bank account will stay the same hopefully if you decide to do nothing

with it so all money is or currency is verified entry into a database

it's permission enter your bank account let's make this

even more simple take my wallet for example my wallet or my database has

accounts either my credit cards debit card or cash and these are just entries

in my database and the only way my entries are gonna change are if specific

conditions are met those conditions being I take out a dollar and give it to

you you give me a dollar I find a dollar on the floor and put it in here and now

the entries in my account in my database have changed and that's all currency

really is now when we come to the digital world that's all digital

currency really is they're just limited entries in a database that can only be

changed by specific conditions now granted it's not physical cash that's

why it's digital currency but the same principles apply I hope that makes sense

I hope haven't lost you yet and if I have pause then go back a couple minutes

and hopefully it makes sense now that we understand what currency is and in a

centralized system of bank is the one that kind of regulates this stuff and

make sure everything is going okay and working the way it's supposed to who

plays Bank in the decentralized market well we've already agreed that if me and

you are supposed to play Bank huh yeah that's that's funny right like that's

not gonna happen I'd love to have more faith in people but not so back to this

problem of how do we regulate this decentralized system well like I

mentioned before città she figured this out by using cryptocurrency so the

answer to who plays Bank in this decentralized cryptocurrency

digital world is us the peers and crypto both crypto and the peer network both

together help to regulate the decentralized system so now that we

would find what currency is let's move a few letters to the left and figure out

what crypto really means but before I can do that I have to explain how

cryptocurrency is actually made cryptocurrency is made from a process

called mining now for all you crypto gurus and pros that are out there that

might be watching this video just heads up I'm gonna dumb this down a lot so

don't be in my comments like oh like I'm just trying to make a point so

you can understand this conceptually right anyways so crypto currency like

Bitcoin is made within the peer-to-peer networks from a process called mining

and for this video we're just gonna take Bitcoin for

example but there's a bunch of other coins out there I'll get more into that

later every pier has a record of all completed

transactions since the dawn of the beginning of the coin to present moment

so let me use a similar example that I used earlier but in the digital world so

let's say I want to give you 50 bucks once again you're welcome so what I

would do with this cryptocurrency is say hey I want to give you 50 bucks so what

that is is a transaction right a going to be what happens is with that

transaction and I sign with my electronic signature and it's sent to

you the transaction is now broadcasted throughout the network because remember

within this decentralized system everybody knows about all the

transactions and all that kind of stuff so it's sent out through the network but

it's pending okay now when a transaction is pending all things can happen to it

people can mess with it because it's not complete yet it hasn't been solidified

yet in fact this transaction does not happen until it's absolutely confirmed

when it's confirmed it's locked tight it's sealed it's irreversible it's a

done deal you get the 50 bucks I sent you I can't

refund or ask for it back unless you want to send it back like it's complete

so in a way you can say crypto is all about confirmation because once I say I

want to give you 50 bucks of digital cash and I sign in with my digital

signature and it goes out to the whole network saying hey gais wants to give

you 50 bucks of this guy or gal it's still pending and the only way it can be

confirmed is by miners miners or people who do mining as in crypto mining or the

only people who can confirm transactions and basically they walk around with a

big stamp in their hand and they stamp and approve transaction and once a miner

approves a transaction they are rewarded with a token or a cryptocurrency which

in this case bitcoins so remember only miners can't

transactions and transactions don't mean diddly squat unless they're confirmed

all - do their job is to just confirm transactions and anytime they confirm a

transaction they get a Bitcoin their job is to take a transaction step their

approval on it and let the network know now once a transaction like me and you

decided to give or take money is confirmed that transaction becomes a

block link to this block as like indestructible it's it's done it's

written that stone transaction is approved it's completely can't be

reversed and that block is now added to the block change now if you don't know

what a blockchain is I'm just giving you a very general definition just for the

purposes of this video but all the blockchain is is a history of

transactions that people have made with this point because remember how I said

everyone in this decentralized network has access to all the transactions well

think about all these transactions all connected to each other and they form a

chain a blockchain and anytime that transaction is confirmed by a miner that

transaction becomes another block added to the blockchain so it's basically a

history of the lifespan of the coin as well as the activity that's happened

with that coin amongst the peers within the network so everybody's after the

Bitcoin and miners get rewarded Bitcoin just by approving transactions then I

mean why can't me and you become a miner and all honesty you can in fact anybody

can be your miner because see in this decentralized world there's no governing

authority that says you there are gonna be a modern you they're just gonna be

the people who trade and collect and spend the Bitcoin this there's no you

know building printing out dollar bills in us and establishing it throughout the

society it's it's kind of like everyone doing their thing it's decentralized

there's nobody really governing anything except us governing ourselves the only

problem with being miners that's really hard and really expensive and is this

it's a lot of work in that sense everybody can be a miner if they really

wanted to in theory so what's atashi the creative bitcoin

decided to do was he decided to set some rules and the rule was if you want to be

a miner and for Bitcoin meaning that if you want to

be a miner who approves transactions and as a result and reward earned a certain

amount of Bitcoin then you have to invest some computer power a lot of

computer power and once again dumbing this down a lot if you want a mind for

Bitcoin you're gonna have to invest a lot of computer power and play a game

now this game is a very algorithmic intense game that basically only

computers can figure out and the whole purpose of this game is to find

something it's think of it as like a key this kind of reminds me of that movie

ready player one if you if you watched it you know what I'm talking about if

you don't just ignore that but sitaji created this computer game basically

saying if you can find this key which is called a hash then you can approve

transactions and if you approve a transaction you get a Bitcoin I don't

know all the details about the game or the algorithm or all that kind of stuff

all know is that it's very hard it's very mathematical the game is a crypto

logic puzzle that miners compete the salt and anytime this puzzle is solved

it gets harder and harder and harder so you need more and more computer power so

you basically need these huge servers like there are literally buildings out

there of just computers hooked up to wires and servers that are so noisy and

all these computers are doing this a menteng a massive amount of energy to

play this game to find these keys to be able to confirm transactions to add to

this blockchain to be rewarded a Bitcoin or whatever cryptocurrency that they're

mining for at the time have I lost you yet I hope not

but if I did I understand go back and watch it again this is the only way to

create valid Bitcoin the only way is by playing this Cryptologic game that's a

lot of computer power now you can always buy for somebody else or you can always

trade bitcoins but to create them this is the only way to do it is by playing

Satoshi's game with a lot of computer power completing the missions basically

so the tie this all up in one big finale the heck is cryptocurrency remember my

definition of currency that just entries in a database that can only be changed

if certain parameters are met like the dollar bill in my wallet

basically cryptocurrency are entries in a decentralized peer-to-peer database

where the governing banking power of this decentralized system is very secure

strong cryptography crypto currencies are built on cryptography they're not

built by people or they're not made by trust they're made by hard solid cold

calculated math and that's it really hard algorithmic math that can only be

solved by supercomputers and you have a greater chance of having an asteroid

come from space and smash on your house blowing into a thousand pieces than

having somebody find a Bitcoin address and compromising it based off of this

cryptological game that miners have to play in order to get approved bitcoins

after approving transactions whoo that's a mouthful Wow and it doesn't

stop there I mean the rapaho just goes deeper and we'll be talking about this

in other videos like there different types of crypto currencies there's

Bitcoin man aetherium and litecoin and ripple and there's thousands of them out

there basically by now and the whole thing about this cryptocurrency like

which one is the best which one should I invest in all that

kind of stuff which we'll be talking about later videos the thing is these

cryptocurrencies have different properties and different components that

they all run on think of it like credit card rewards programs right like you

know there's some credit cards that they'll give you 2% cash back or 5% cash

back at certain restaurants and other credit cards give you travel points or

or miles there's a bunch of different credit card companies each have

different perks and you just pick one that you kind of like the best would be

the one you're gonna take more advantage of same thing kind of goes for all these

coins they all have different properties and they all have different benefits

then they all have different stuff that people believe in and people want to see

more of our people like and they that why they want to invest in that because

they're investing in the technology and the benefits that that cryptocurrency

is backing but we won't get to all that right now all right that's basically it

but here's a final thought just to have you think about this whole Bitcoin

decentralized thing and you know what's the big deal if you really think about

it cryptocurrency is more accurate and more currency than the stuff that we

have in our bank account because think about it think about the money in your

bank account oh that is our numbers in an account but these numbers in your

account are in a database that's controlled by people you don't know

never seen before that are controlled by rules that you may not even know that

could possibly change at any time you know and don't get me wrong I'm not

saying you know bring down the banks and all this kind of stuff like obviously

they're there for a reason but just to help you think about these things with

Bitcoin and crypto cars Ian what's becoming of this whole decentralized

thing we are the peers are the people of that kind of control of everything but

that's the guys thank you so much for watching I hope this video is helpful I

hope it gave you some insight on what cryptocurrency really is breaking down

some of the history and really kind of just helping you tie it all together so

hopefully you kind of understand it in a better way and hey if you don't

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makes it look more sense I hope it does once again

guys my name is Gabe Ekemezie thank you for watching and I'll catch you on the

next video

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San Diego Health: Radiation Therapy Is Safer and More Effective Than Ever - Duration: 28:20.

(bright inspirational music)

- Hi, I'm Susan Taylor at Scripps Health

in San Diego, California.

You get those three dreaded words: you have cancer.

Now what?

Well first, we tell our patients

to (exhales deeply) take deep breath.

Let's look at the biopsy report,

let's get some imaging studies done

and meet with your medical team

to talk about the course of treatment.

So the course of treatment for many types

of cancer includes radiation therapy, and radiation therapy

has changed dramatically over the last 15, 20 years.

Here to talk about advancements in radiation therapy

are Dr. Ray Lin, who is the Medical Director

of Scripps Radiation Oncology and Dr. Prabhakar Tripuraneni,

who is Division Head of Scripps Radiation Oncology.

Thank you so much for being here.

All right, so let's start with the basics

for folks who are just beginning this journey.

What is radiation therapy?

- Radiation therapy is using various forms

of radiation therapy safely and effectively

to manage cancer, cure cancer,

and also use it in some of the types of diseases.

- [Susan] So explain what radiation therapy,

though, Doctor.

- Radiation therapy is one of the main modalities

for cancer care.

There's three main modalities:

one is surgery; one is systemic treatment

such as chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy;

and one is radiation therapy.

And radiation therapy involves

using radiation beams to treat the cancer.

Rather than take it out physically by surgery,

we radiate that cancer and do--

- [Susan] You're zapping it.

- Zapping it, yeah.

- There are two major forms of radiation therapy.

Giving radiation therapy from outside,

external radiation therapy.

That's what most of the patients get,

the linear accelerators, et cetera.

And there's also bracytherapy.

That is internal radiation therapy

where we can put in radiation seeds,

or capsules, and do radiation therapy from inside out.

- So the radiation therapy, the treatment

has evolved greatly over the last 15 or 20 years.

Tell me how it's evolved, how it's changed.

- Radiation therapy has been around since 1895.

Radiation therapy has been around more than 100 years.

- [Susan] Wow.

- And around 1950s, there was invention

of a new machine called the linear accelerator, (crosstalk).

- [Susan] A linear accelerator?

- Linear accelerator, in Palo Alto, California,

that really opened up the Pandora's box

for radiation therapy.

I've been radiation therapy for the past 35 years.

Three major things happened in the past 35 years

that really put radiation therapy

in the forefront in the cancer management.

The basic radiation-producing apparatus,

linear accelerator, has been about the same.

The first major advance is incorporation of the computers.

These days, machines are really fast,

highly telomated to deal with radiation therapy precisely

where we want to treat or how we want to treat.

The second major advance is incorporating imaging equipment.

Our linear accelerators these days come

with X-ray machines built in

to take regular X-rays, CAT scans, and MRIs

that give us the ability to look

at the tumor just before I'm doing the treatment

so that we can safely and effectively

and precisely deal with the treatment.

The third thing that we already mentioned

is that we use chemotherapy, radiation therapy,

and immunotherapy together that becomes much more effective.

Often, if the effectiveness of radiation therapies,

let's say, 10 points, chemotherapy

by itself is only five points.

But using chemo and radiation therapy together,

we can get up to 20 points, so almost all cancers

these days that we treat them for cure,

we use combination of radiation therapy along

with some form of chemotherapy

and hormone therapy and immunotherapy.

- Yeah, I say look at the computer age.

Think of your iPhone.

It took a long time from a basic phone,

your dial-up phone at home, to go to a cell phone

than from the cell phone to go from 2D, 3D, 4D, 5D.

It's rapidly progressing, and I think

because of the computer age with better imaging

and better technology, radiation therapy

has advanced just like your cell phone,

from 2D to 3D to 4D, that quickly.

But it took a long time to get to 2D.

- So the radiation therapy of 15, 20, 30 years ago,

it was in a much broader range, you're saying?

So let's say say the tumor is here,

you had to radiate an area that was bigger,

and now you can be a lot more precise

with the area that you hit?

- Well, definitely, it was more coarse.

These days, the radiation beams are much more precise.

But also because we see the target much more precisely,

not just because the machines could create a much

more precise target, it's because we

can see the target much more precisely.

Because we have better imaging with MRIs and PET scans,

we can see on the computer where that tumor is

and arrange beams with various angles

to treat that target while sparing normal tissue.

- Are you doing it in real time, that you can see it

as the beam is actually hitting the tumor?

Or do you have to immobilize the person, the patient,

on the table and then model it and calculate,

yeah, this is where it's gonna hit?

- Even if you immobilize the patient

and put the marks on the skin, there's still things

inside the body that want to move,

such as the heart, the lung, the prostate,

and bowel and all those things.

I know our machines, and most of the machines,

these high linear accelerators, we can take an X-ray

and a CAT scan just before the treatment

and see exactly where it is, how to modify

what you want to treat, to shift the beams

right on the fly, and where you're treating.

You can also take X-rays and modify what you're doing.

So that's the next major advance

in radiation therapy, the real-time image guidance.

- Yeah, at Scripps Health, we have machines

where we can actually treat in sub-millimeter precision

because machines are so precise these days.

- So you're talking about (laughs)--

- Sub-millimeter.

- Fraction of a millimeter.

- Fraction of a millimeter, which is great

because you wanna protect the nearby, surrounding

healthy tissue and the vital organs, right?

- That's exactly right.

- So is radiation therapy better on certain cancers

than other types of cancers?

- There are certain cancers that are more

what we call radioresponsive, more radioresponsive

to radiation therapy, such as lymphomas.

And then there are other cancers that are more

what we call radioresistant, like sarcomas.

But all cancers can be treated with radiation therapy.

You just have to manipulate the amount

of dose you get per day and how often to give it

to, based on the sensitivities of the tumor.

For instance, if a tumor is more sensitive,

you can give less dose per day.

But if a tumor is less sensitive to radiation,

you just have to give a higher dose per day.

So all cancers are sensitive to radiation,

but some are biologically sensitive,

where some are more biologically resistant.

- So the biologically sensitive ones would be...

- (in unison) Lymphoma.

- Seminoma, it's from--

- Seminoma is testicular cancer.

- Okay, and then the ones that are not so sensitive,

where you'd have to give a higher dose, would be--

- I'd say melanoma and sarcomas tend

to be less sensitive, and then the other tumors

are in between.

- Right, so a common-- - So we treat--

- common one would be breast cancer,

what about breast cancer?

- We treat just about every single cancer

with a different radiation therapy, starting

from brain tumors, throat cancers, lung cancers,

breast cancers, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer.

And so actually, just about every single cancer

is treated with radiation therapy.

As we were saying a few minutes ago,

we diagnose about 1.6 million cancers

in the United States every year.

More than one million patients

actually get radiation therapy

as the sole treatment and part of the cancer management.

So that's a large number of patients, one million patients

actually get cancer radiation therapy.

And about a third to half of them

are cured solely because of radiation therapy.

It's a very safe and effective form

and highly curative form.

- So are there certain types of cancer

where you wouldn't need chemotherapy,

and you can just do the radiation?

- Absolutely.

- And those would be, for example?

- Prostate cancer.

Some of the very early lung cancers these days,

the data is showing that you can give

four to five radiation zaps, you can say,

four to five treatments with what's called radiosurgery,

which is just as equivalent in cure

as taking the lobe out surgically.

So radiation therapy has come a long way

where we have technology, where we can pinpoint

on very small tumors, even very large tumors,

and give an equivalent cure to surgery many times.

So when we talk about cancer care,

sometimes radiation's given, sometimes chemotherapy's given,

sometimes surgery's given, and sometimes

there's a combination of two or three of these things.

- Are there certain people who can, should have radiation,

and are there people who can, should not have radiation?

- Well, I would say it depends on the type of tumor.

I would say it depends on the location;

is it easier to take out, or is it easier to radiate?

And for certain cancers such as breast cancer,

if a woman has lupus or some kind of autoimmune disorders,

sometimes that will tip us towards giving surgery

rather than radiation therapy.

- [Susan] Because?

- Because of the skin reaction, the skin response

to radiation therapy.

And then there are certain patients

who we would tip towards radiation

because surgery would be harder on them.

- The number of patients that actually cannot

have radiation therapy because of lupus

is far and few between, maybe one

out of 1,000 patients or one out of 5,000 patients.

And I think if the cancer is localized, most

of the body sites, they can be

a candidate for radiation therapy.

And the advantage of radiation therapy

is you don't need to go through major surgery

and you get to keep what you have.

For example, as simple as a skin cancer

on the tip of the nose, most surgeons

can do a wonderful job, but your nose gets messed up.

You can have four weeks of radiation therapy

and get to keep the nose exactly the way you have

right in there. (Susan laughs)

- So let's say I've been diagnosed with cancer,

and I come and I'm told that I need radiation therapy.

What is procedure, what happens

when a patient comes to see you for the first time?

- I think the most important thing

is actually to have a treatment plan.

That's where the radiation oncologist,

surgical oncologist, and medical oncologist

work together and devise a plan.

Sometimes, actually, radiation therapy's

the only treatment the patient is going to get.

Very often these days, actually,

it's a combination of multiple treatments.

Do you want to take on from there?

- Yeah, I would say after the plan is created,

patients undergo immobilization and simulation,

where we do a mapping of the target

where we immobilize the patient

so that they're treated in the same position each day.

Then a planning is done in the computer in the background

by a physicist and dosimetrist and radiation oncologist.

After we plan the treatment, what we do

with planning the treatment is we wanna minimize doses

to normal structures and deliver all the doses to the tumor.

After we plan the treatment,

the patient's scheduled for treatments.

And radiation takes about five to 10 minutes sometimes.

It's Monday through Friday treatment

anywhere between one day to up

to six to seven weeks, typically.

- [Susan] So what--

- When you do the simulation, I tell patients,

actually, we do a CAT scan of where we want to treat.

We reconstruct the CAT scan; I have a watchful view

on the computer.

I can slice and dice any way I want and,

as Ray said a few minutes earlier,

we can bring in the PET scans and MRIs

and actually fuse and see exactly where the tumor is

and then decide what we want to treat,

what we don't want to treat.

And then I have a whole group of people

that actually work within our department,

the medical radiation physicist,

the dosimetrist therapist, we are--

- What's a dosi, what is it called, dosimetr--

- A dosimetrist is someone who is trained

in planning and designing radiation fields

and creating doses for a radiation plan.

And a physicist is usually someone who supervises

a dosimetrist to do this, a medical physicist.

- So if I have a tumor on my lung,

then this team, they map out exactly where the tumor is,

where the radiation's going to hit the tumor,

at what angle - What angle.

it's gonna come in at.

- We create customized blocks because each angle

where the beam comes in, the beam's gonna see the tumor

from each angle differently.

So, for instance, let's say you have prostate cancer.

If a beam's coming through the front,

it's gonna hit the bladder, so you could customize the beam

where it treats less of the bladder from that angle.

- So that you don't have side effects

- Exactly. like urinary incontinence.

- From the side, you may want to customize

that beam so that it avoids the rectum.

So from every angle the beam could be created

in a special way and molded in a special way to give--

- That's the (crosstalk) advance, these machines actually.

The TrueBeam STx that we have is actually

such a highly sophisticated linear accelerator.

Once we design the plan right in there,

all the information is sent to the linear accelerator,

and as the machine is moving around,

it's constantly changing the shape of the beam

and how much intensity it's delivering.

On the top of it, we can do imaging before,

we can do imaging during, so that we can precisely

and accurately deal with radiation therapy

in a highly different fashion.

- So this TrueBeam STx technology,

and we've got some animation to show the folks about this.

The patient is lying there on the table, right?

They're not moving; the actual machine is moving

around the patient, and is the beam, is it 360 degrees?

Can you come in at any angle?

- It could be 360 degrees.

I think of it as, think of a beam

that's rotating around your body.

The beam goes through a checkerboard.

That checkerboard opens and closes

from each angle where the beam's going through

because what you wanna do is you wanna mold

that checkerboard to conform to the tumor.

You can also deliver a different dose

through each grid of the checkerboard

so that the areas near the center of the tumor

you can give a higher dose, the area

at the peripheral of the tumor

near a normal structure you can give

a lower dose through that grid.

So I think of it as a beam going around the body

but the beam goes through a grid,

which is like a checkerboard, that opens and closes.

- It's a highly sophisticated linear accelerator.

It's very high-end computing right there.

Think of like a cardiography between the imaging,

delivering the beam, constantly changing

where you're delivering and how you're delivering

and how much you're delivering,

and also motion management, all of them put together.

That's what the machine is doing seamlessly.

And amazing, it can deal with the treatment

in about a minute or two.

Probably one of the fastest machines

that you can actually buy on the marketplace today.

- That is so wild.

So before, I remember my mom had breast cancer back in 1999.

And she had six weeks of radiation treatment,

five days a week, for six weeks.

And she had to lay there for a long time.

Now you're saying, with this TrueBeam STx technology,

talk about the amount of times per week and how many weeks

and how much they have to lay on the table.

It's a lot less in all those categories, isn't it?

- Well, it's a lot less time on the table

for almost all the radiation therapy equipment these days.

But it's also a lot fewer weeks

because, these days, we know that for certain cancers,

for let's say breast cancer, we used

to treat to six to seven weeks.

These days, we know that a lot, a good majority,

of the women can probably do it in three to four weeks

because there's data that shows that three to four weeks

of radiation therapy by giving a slightly higher dose

each day is probably equivalent to six

or seven weeks of radiation therapy.

And the reason why we can give slightly higher doses

of radiation each day is because the technology's better.

It's more sophisticated in delivering the treatment.

- [Susan] It's so much more precise.

- It's so much more precise that you

can give a higher dose in fewer treatments.

- For example, for prostate cancer,

typically, we used to give about 40 treatments, eight weeks.

If you think six weeks is bad,

that's eight weeks of treatment right in there.

With the older machines, you have to be on the table

for a good probably 20 minutes to 25 minutes right in there.

Almost half to 2/3 of patients

actually only get five treatments,

just one week of radiation therapy.

They're on the table no more than 15 minutes,

in and out so quickly right in there.

So I think with the advent of this TrueBeam STx

and the like linear accelerator right in there,

we're much more precise, we can safely

and constantly and accurately give a very high dose

to prostate and not give any damage

to the rectum or bowel that's surrounding.

- So, in just a couple of minutes, we're gonna talk about,

I want you to hold this thought for a second.

We're gonna talk about there's some recent news stories

about women getting radiation on their left breast

and then ending up with heart disease several years later.

And we're gonna talk about how radiation therapy

actually affects the heart, so hold that thought;

we'll come back to that in a couple of minutes.

Typically, the radiation treatments last what?

Is there a norm, is it two to three weeks,

or is one week or ten days, or it really depends

on where the tumor is? - Depends on the--

How do you determine how long it--

- So it depends on whether it's a curative treatment

or what's called a palliative treatment

to take away pain or discomfort.

Curative treatments tend to be a little bit longer.

Also, it depends on are we giving chemotherapy with it.

'Cause if we're giving chemotherapy

with it, it's usually a longer treatment

because we don't want to give a higher dose.

So it could last anywhere between, like I said,

one or two days to about six to seven weeks.

But the time on the table these days

is really short, maybe five to 10 minutes each day.

- So talk about 3D and 4D tumor imaging.

I know, in the past, 2D is one dimensional.

3D is you see the whole thing.

But 4D deals with

- (in unison) Motion.

- Motion management. - Motion, right.

So how does that work?

- That's where-- - Give me an example of that.

That's where the TrueBeam STx really come

in handy right in there.

Take prostate cancer as an example.

You put the patient on the table,

and then you do your X-ray measures or you do a CAT scan.

You see that the prostate has actually moved

either up or down or front or back right in there.

You can make all the adjustments,

and right on the table where the patient is lying down

on the table, right?

And you take one more set of X-rays to make sure

that you want to be exactly where it is right in there.

And then you start treating.

In certain cases, actually, you can image

during the treatment and make the proper adjustments,

actually, while you are treating.

And Ray's working on the management

of the breast cancer as the patients are breathing.

- Exactly, because what you wanna do

is when you're breathing and you have breast cancer,

and your chest is going up and down,

what you can do is you can learn

how to control the beam to have it on and off

based on the patient's breathing cycle.

Also, I think a 4D CT as, I think lung and liver cancer.

With your lung and your liver,

when you breathe, the tumor moves up and down like this.

Now in the old days, what we would do is,

as the tumor moves up and down, you have

to have a large target to get it.

But what we can do is

because-- - So you hit it no matter

where the tumor is, as you're breathing in and out.

- With 4D CT scan that we have at Scripps Health,

what happens is, as the tumor goes up and down,

we can see that the tumor moves different directions,

up and down, right and left, front and back.

They move a different distance.

So what you can do is you can generate a bigger margin

where the distance is greater of movement,

a smaller margin where the distance is less.

So what we're trying to do is basically have

tighter margins, have more accurate treatments,

have high precision.

- So let's say you have a tumor on the lung,

and as you're breathing, it moves in and out of frame.

When it moves out of frame, what you're saying

is the machine actually turns on and off

as it's moving in and out of frame?

- That is what the future technology is,

and that's what we are currently working on.

- Okay, but that's not available currently

right now with the TrueBeam STx?

- We have versions of it where we could,

it's called respiratory gating.

Or with breast cancer, what we're working on is

as you breathe in and out, as the breast

and the target moves in and out

of the radiation field, we can turn the beam

on and off based on respiration.

- And so that's really much more targeted therapy

just to the area, and so how much less radiation do you get

with this kind of method? - The dose of

radiation therapy's the same, but the volume

that you're treating, it all depends upon

how much the tumor is moving.

If the tumor is moving, let's say,

an inch up and down right in there,

in those patients, actually, you significantly save

a portion of the lung at 5% of the lung or 10% of the lung.

If the tumor is not moving much

or moving only a few millimeters,

then it really doesn't make a difference.

- So there's not any way to say

on average you're getting, what, 10% less radiation

or 25% radiation, but 'cause it's targeted

right there 'cause of that 4D movement?

- It depends on the volume.

- It does?

- So the bigger the volume, the more important it is

to have a smaller target.

When you have a small target already,

it's probably not gonna matter as much as a bigger target

because a bigger target or where the target is.

If it's on the bottom of the lung

where there's a lot of breathing, a lot of movement

near the diaphragm, 4D gating is gonna be more important

than a tumor at the top of the lung.

- We talked about this a couple of minutes ago;

let's come back to this.

There have been news stories about women

getting radiation on the left breast

and then getting heart disease several years later.

So please address those concerns

and what is involved in all that.

- Yes, there was some literature recently

that looked back on women

who had breast cancer treatments years and years ago.

And they found out that women who had

left-sided breast cancer treatments

were more likely to get heart disease in the future.

Because what happens is the radiation beams

could hit some of the vessels around the heart,

and these vessels, they can develop plaque.

It's like hardening of the artery.

That can lead to an increased risk of heart disease.

But thankfully, Susan, these days, the radiation therapy

is no longer your mother's radiation therapy.

The equipment has become so much better,

so much more precise.

There are so many ways to treat breast cancers

now for the left side.

For instance, what you can do is, instead of lying

on your back where the beam goes across,

you can lie on your stomach where the breast hangs down

and treat from the bottom to avoid the heart.

We also talked about respiratory motion, respiratory gating.

Also, we talked about beams that have,

remember that checkerboard, that can open and close.

So if there's a grid where the beam's going in

that's close to the heart, you can simply block it.

So there's many ways to manipulate this.

As a matter of fact, last--

- So go back again, there's actually ways

that you can block the beam from a certain

part of the body. - Right, remember, it's

like a checker, so the beam goes through a checkerboard.

If part of the target is near the heart,

you simply block that part of that grid

that's near the heart so that's there no beam

that's going through the heart.

Also, like with respiratory motion,

you can manipulate the beam as patients breathe in and out,

as the heart moves in and out towards the chest.

But also, like I said, the way you immobilize the patient,

the way you position the patient,

whether on her back or on her stomach,

you can manipulate doses to the heart.

So I'm really happy to say that, these days

with modern radiation therapy, heart risk is fairly low.

As a matter of fact, last year,

in the Journal of Clinical Oncology,

there was a publication that stated

that, with modern radiation therapy,

the incidence of radiation therapy leading

to heart-related deaths

is only 0.3%

if you're a non-smoker.

Now, if you're a smoker, it's about 1%.

So if you have a low risk to begin with already,

radiation therapy doesn't really add much more risks.

- So when you look down the road, what do you see?

- Well, I'm really excited about

more targeted therapy, more immunotherapy.

So not just advancements in radiation therapy,

like Dr. Tripuraneni said,

with MRI-based linear accelerators.

In our field, I'm excited about the MRI base.

But just in other fields, targeted therapy, immunotherapy,

better surgery. - And that's immunotherapy

is using the body's immune system to

attack the cancer. - Exactly.

For instance, I recently treated a patient

who had widespread melanoma throughout the body.

But we know that, by giving radiation therapy to one

of the melanoma tumors, and then by injecting immunotherapy

into her, all her tumors disappeared.

Because what happens is the radiation therapy causes

some kind of inflammatory response or immune reaction

where, when you give the immunotherapy,

it potentiates, it makes the immunotherapy work even better.

So the immunotherapy and the radiation,

even though we meant to attack one tumor,

ended up attacking all the tumors in this person's body.

So the advancements in treatment have come a long way.

As a matter of fact, according

to the American Cancer Society,

since 1991, the incidence of cancer-related deaths

have dropped 26% for prostate cancer.

Less than 50%, greater than 50% decrease

in deaths related to prostate cancer.

Greater than 50% decrease in deaths

related to rectal cancer.

Breast cancer deaths have decreased by 1% a year since 1995.

These are really exciting statistics.

- That's hopeful.

Just go back and give some perspective.

Were there any side effects to radiation

15, 20, 30 years ago compared to any side effects

to it today or looking down the road?

- Much less side effects these days

because you're more targeted.

There are much more side effects.

Before, you had many more skin burns,

many more for prostate cancer.

Much more diarrhea, much more loose bowel movements,

and burning with urination.

These days for prostate cancer,

we hardly see any side effects with radiation therapy.

So much less side effects.

- Simply, simply we treat a much small radius to treat,

because we know exactly where to treat

and we can track it, we can image it.

So just to give an example for prostate cancer.

In the beginning of my career,

just to treat prostate cancer, I used to treat it

with a liter of the body, 1,000 CC.

These days I treat prostate cancers

maybe no more than 85, 100 CC, 1/10 of the volume.

And we give much higher doses.

Some surrounding structures, rectum, bladder,

hardly get any dose or a very small dose

of radiation therapy.

So side effects are much lesser, effectiveness

is much higher, patients doing much better.

- And Susan, I have to say that one

of the really important things in cancer care in the future

is looking at who doesn't need treatments as well.

Because we know that not all cancers are the same.

Some people will never die of their cancers,

so not all patients with prostate cancers need treatment.

These days, what we can do is, for certain cases

of breast cancer, we can look on a molecular level

of patient's breast cancer whether she would benefit

from chemotherapy, whether she would benefit

from long-term hormone blocker, whether she

would even benefit from radiation therapy.

Because if you look at the molecularly, these cells,

we can have an idea of who's gonna benefit

from treatments and who doesn't really need treatments

because the cancer's not really

that aggressive. - It's something that you

will live with as opposed to something you will die from.

- That's exactly right.

So I think that not only do we have better cures,

we really have to think of who doesn't need treatment.

Because we want better cures, but we

also want good quality of life for our patients.

- What's the most rewarding part of your job?

- Seeing the patient, holding their hands,

offering the best treatment, and take them

through treatment, and when they come back

to see me year after year.

32 years, 34 years, that's the most rewarding part.

And see their family, kids, grandkids.

Sometimes actually they bring them just

to introduce, this is my doctor.

- [Susan] Aww. (laughs) - That's the

most rewarding part of being a doctor.

- I recently had a patient that we sent

to hospice six years ago.

I gave her palliative radiation therapy.

I just thought, "Well, she's older,

"she's frail, let's just do a little bit

"of radiation, a little bit of palliation."

She showed up at my door for followup

a few weeks ago, really shocked me.

I said, "Where have you been all these years?"

(Susan laughs)

- She said, "I traveled the world

- [Susan] Aww. because you saved my life."

- Nothing better than that.

Dr. Lin, Dr. Tripuraneni, thank you so much

for joining us; we really appreciate it.

- Thank you Susan.

- Thank you.

- At Scripps, we have hundreds

of doctors who provide cancer care.

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