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Will There Be a Drug That Prevents Cancer?

Siddhartha Mukherjee says yes, there will be chemoprevention. Asked where the gains that save lives will come from, he says the answer is always prevention. Peter Attia asked whether that could be a drug in the way Lipitor is given before…

#412 ‒ The evolving science of cancer: emerging approaches to prevention and early detection, and the advances reshaping treatment | Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., Ph.D.at 1:33:59

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