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I treat the gastrointestinal cancers, which includes colon cancer, stomach cancer, pancreas
cancer. We do the medical oncology part and there's also radiation oncology, surgery.
So it's kind of a combined effort.
There are a lot of different drugs that are available, so patients have better outcomes
and we've got a lot of long-term survivors. You know, people say, "Isn't it depressing
to treat these cancer patients?" But a lot of people are cured, especially for colon
cancer or *** cancer, *** cancer.
Within 10 to 15 years we're going to take the patient's tumor, analyze all the genes
in the tumor and make like a designer treatment for that patient. We're not there yet, but
at Rush we're testing for some of those genes already.