it's so great to have you with us on our program so as you know it's called sophie cohen visionaries and you're a true visionary in your field so i got a lot of questions like i'm not a professional right so i'm going to ask you a lot of things that actually lie on the surface because that's what most people are interested in i'm ready ok so i don't have the statistic for a world her surgeon is ation the latest one and it says that actually cases and the deaths are rising and i'm thinking we have so many new technologies so much research has been done are we still losing the battle no question about it we're losing the battle for 2 big reasons one is we're continuing to smoke so tobacco is still the leading cause of cancer death worldwide and we're doing it more women are smoking than ever and while some rates are going down in many parts of the world are going up 2nd is all the new treatments that we have which are really amazing we can turn off on switches and cancer we can have your own immune system attack the cancer but that's just delays things it does. cure it buys time and it

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