Name: 在更好地治療癌症的競賽中取得進步 (Making Strides in the Race to Better Treat Cancer)
Uploaded: 2025-07-19T17:24:29.000Z
Duration: 4 min 24 s

Is there a higher calling than curing cancer?

還有比治療癌症更崇高的使命嗎？

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The attempts that we're making to cure cancer are really addressing one of the most challenging problems that humans face.

我們為治癒癌症所做的嘗試，實際上是在解決人類面臨的最具挑戰性的問題之一。

The coming together of individuals to take on these complex challenges is our highest calling.

團結起來應對這些複雜的挑戰是我們的最高使命。

Because my mom had cancer when I was 14, it had a really strong effect on me.

我 14 歲時，媽媽患上了癌症，這對我的影響非常大。

I was very afraid that I would get breast cancer.

I just was too afraid to ever go to the doctor.

But I felt like I needed to make sure I was healthy to be there for the rest of the family.

但我覺得，我必須確保自己身體健康，才能陪伴家人。

My doctor called me two days later when they had the results and told me that it was positive for breast cancer.

兩天後，我的醫生拿到檢查結果後給我打了電話，告訴我結果呈陽性，是乳腺癌。

I had the bilateral mastectomy, chemotherapy.

我接受了雙側乳房切除術和化療。

In March of 2018, I woke up at 3 a.m. and felt a lump right next to my belly button.

2018 年 3 月，我在凌晨 3 點醒來，感覺肚臍旁邊有一個腫塊。

It had two small spots on my lung and three small spots that they could see on an MRI in my brain.

我的肺部有兩個小斑點，腦部有三個小斑點，他們可以通過核磁共振成像看到。

Not to sugarcoat it, that's what it felt like.

不是我誇大其詞，我就是這種感覺。

I thought I would be dead in a few months.

They were in the process of getting ready to open a clinical trial.

他們正在準備開展一項臨床試驗。

In the past, we have treated almost all patients with a given cancer the same way.

過去，我們幾乎用同樣的方法治療所有癌症患者。

Yet for many patients, those drugs were not effective.

然而，對許多患者來說，這些藥物並沒有效果。

Precision Oncology is tailoring our therapy to what is happening in each patient and their tumor.

精準腫瘤學是根據每位患者及其腫瘤的情況量身定製治療方案。

The SMART program is the implementation of Precision Oncology for the individual patient.

SMART 計劃是針對個體患者實施的精準腫瘤學。

We measure the tumors in many different ways in order to get clues about how they might be more effectively attacked.

我們用許多不同的方法測量腫瘤，以便獲得如何更有效地攻擊腫瘤的線索。

One of the key challenges that we have is the need to analyze that data in real time.

我們面臨的主要挑戰之一是需要實時分析這些數據。

The partnership with Micron is designed to make this happen faster using the technologies that they have available.

與美光的合作旨在利用其現有技術更快地實現這一目標。

We are helping the Knight Cancer Institute speed up their analytics pipeline using Micron's deep learning accelerators so that the data extraction is in a clinically relevant timeframe.

我們正在幫助奈特癌症研究所利用 Micron 的深度學習加速器加快其分析管道的速度，以便在臨床相關的時間範圍內提取數據。

Some of these patients don't have three months to wait for an analysis to be completed.

有些病人沒有三個月的時間等待分析結果。

They need it done in a week, in a day, an hour.

他們需要在一週內、一天內、一小時內完成。

I have been treating patients for a very long period of time.

我治療病人已經有很長一段時間了。

However, Beth was one of those exciting cases that when we first analyzed what was happening with her tumor, we knew that we had something truly exciting for her.

然而，貝絲是一個令人興奮的病例，當我們第一次分析她的腫瘤情況時，我們就知道我們為她找到了真正令人興奮的東西。

The best I thought I was going to hear was it hadn't gotten worse.

我以為我聽到的最好的消息就是情況沒有惡化。

I never dreamed that the tumors would be reduced.

So why not build the technologies that will accelerate insight for some of our most complex questions like cancer.

是以，為什麼不開發能夠加快深入瞭解癌症等最複雜問題的技術呢？

Our seven-year-old, we decided to surprise her for her last day of kindergarten.

我們七歲的女兒上幼兒園的最後一天，我們決定給她一個驚喜。

She jumped up and down and came running out and went, Grammy, Grammy, you're here.

她上躥下跳，跑出來喊道：奶奶，奶奶，你來了。

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