Goes to her doctor, who orders a lung ct scan and a new blood test developed through research supported by the Precision Medicine initiative to look for dna and other biomarkers circulating in her blood. The ct scan detects a tiny spot that could be inflammation from bronchitis or cancer not clear, but the biomarker test clinches the diagnosis, revealing a genetic mutation that occurs only in patients with cancer. In 2015, today her prognosis from this cancer would be pretty grim. But in 2018 that could all change. Lily is treated with surgery to remove the tumor and the tumor dna undergoes molecular analysis. Based on those results, lily is treated with a targeted drug that was originally developed for skin cancer but has the right properties for her tumor. She also receives a course of immunotherapy designed to kill any tumor cells that may be lurking in her body. With this treatment a decade later, lily remains cancer free. Thats a hypothetical but quite realistic of what the cancer
Income inequality, like watching the end of casablanca. [applause] [laughter] my goodness people are talking about it. Round up the usual suspects. Well, in fact we do not want to discourage their newfound interest. But we are not buying that old trickledown economics that didnt work before and can never work again because it defies arithmetic and reality. [applause] so we welcome them to come with their ideas and that is what it should be about. Elections should be the contest of ideas. And i think emilys list has proven that in that contest of ideas, the women who are willing to enter the arena well equipped in some great measure by the support they get from emilys list, can make their case and can be elected. When i think in my own life history, i am like so many of you in this room and across this country. My grandfather was a factory worker that started at the age of 11 and worked until he was 65 and got to retire. His son, my father went to college. He was a small businessman who
My goodness people are talking about it. Round up the usual suspects. Well in fact we do not want to discourage their newfound interest. But we are not buying that old trickledown economics that didnt work before and can never work again because it defies arithmetic and reality. [applause] so we welcome them to come with their ideas and that is what it should be about. Elections should be the contest of ideas. And i think emilys list has proven that in that contest of ideas, the women who are willing to enter the arena well equipped in some great measure by the support they get from emilys list, can make their case and can be elected. When i think in my own life history, i like so many of you am in this room and across this country. My grandfather was a factory worker that started at the age of 11 and worked until he was 65 and got to retire. His son, my father went to college. He was a small businessman who worked really hard and made a good life for us. My mother had a terrible abusi
This morning were Holding Hearing on continuing americas leadership realizing the promise of Precision Medicine. Well have an Opening Statement then introduce our witnesses, who are getting to be very familiar to us. Were very grateful to you for coming. After that, we will have time to ask five minute rounds of questions or two, depending how many senators are here. We are here today to discuss exciting new direction in our health care called Precision Medicine. What does that mean . Well, those of us in the room a good representation of the population, they estimate one in ten of us would have diabetes. If doctors could use Precision Medicine, that is if they could look at our individual dna and genetic, molecular makeup of disease, perhaps they could tailor treatments to each individual rather than to more general category of diabetes. I was visited this morning by the head of philadelphia Childrens Hospital who talked about their work in identifying a defective gene, mutated geneti
Challenges we face as a country, they are pretty stark challenges and our politics are terrible. But i would think you would rather have our challenges than any major emerging economy around the world. Watch that entire event from the milken institutes global conference tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Here are some of our featureded programs for this weekend on the cspan networks. On cspan, saturday starting at noon. Politicians, white house officials and Business Leaders offer advise and encouragement to the class of 2015. Speakers include former president , george w. Bush and chair of dreamworks animation. At 9 15. Former Staff Members reflect on the presidency of george h. W. Bush. And sunday afternoon more commencement speeches from across the country with former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and madeline albright. On cspan 2 saturday morning book tv is in new york city with events from book expo america beginning at 10 00 and live callin segments throughout the day