ian ayre their questions to ask, but you just cannot find the answers. that you know.ions. i've had in ten yea rs ask the questions. i've had in ten years ago began to reformulate the question is, what are the questions. in that time we have invented important tools that will allow was to ask the questions. important strides against many cancers, but remaining questions are still unsolved. let me ask you a personal question. you see that the toolkit is expanding, but it is still clearly not sufficient, you work, currently, i believe in colombia in columbia university hospital in new york, you work with cancer patients every day... yes. so dying and death are realities you live with every day. absolutely every day. what impact has that had on your life?m changes, it changed who i am. i actually cannot think of myself as someone who hasn't encountered a death a week. that person that i must have been at some point of time before a became a cancer, before a became an oncologist, has vanished for me, that person... that person who was under your care. this is someone that