Trailer - Professor Thomas Cox

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Dr Viviane Richter (00:00):
You're listening to Medical Minds, the podcast that takes you
inside the labs at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.

Associate Professor Thomas Cox (00:07):
What we've begun to understand is that context is incredibly important. So,
the tumour cells within that tumour, and within the context
of that fibrosis, that fibrosis is having a huge part
now in how fast they divide, whether or not they
move and spread around the body in the process that

(00:27):
we call metastasis, whether they respond to a particular treatment
or not. And so what we're starting to do is
think about designing therapies that are not just targeting cancer cells.
What we want to do is to target both the
cancer cells and this support network, or this fibrotic mass,
that forms around them. And in doing so, we now

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treat the whole tumour rather than just the cancer cells.