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September 28, 2025 35 mins

Dr Azra Raza: The First Cell, Unravelling The Mystery of Cancer.


Few adults on the planet have not been touched, either directly or indirectly, by cancer. Cancer is one of the things many people see as an inevitable part of life that they hope and pray does not visit directly onto their own life. 

Imagine for a moment the grief of being an oncologist (a cancer specialist) and the weight that
would put on your life. Every day, you work with people, 70% of whom you will walk to their
death. Would that make you want to quit and find a new field?

Now imagine that you are not only watching as these people die but that you discover that the love of your life, another oncologist, is diagnosed with untreatable cancer, and you must walk them through to the end. 

For most of us, that would make us want to crawl into a hole and never return. Well, not for our
guest, Dr. Azra Raza. Instead, she is pioneering the understanding of cancer and, most
importantly, its earliest detection. 


Dr. Raza immigrated to the U.S. with a clear intention: to cure cancer. She has traveled a long
way from where she grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, to the dining room of President Joe Biden 
home at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.


Dr. Raza was invited with a handful of other cancer specialists to offer their perspectives on the current cancer landscape, which contributed to shaping what is now known as the "Cancer
Moonshot" She has been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, The
Smithsonian, and numerous other high-profile outlets. 


 
Dr. Raza’s latest bestselling book, "THE FIRST CELL" is a searing account of how medicine
and our society (mis) treat cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. Her life is devoted to early detection and prevention of cancer.


Website
https://azraraza.com
Azra.rasa@columbia.edu 
Social Media
https://twitter.com/AzraRazaMD    
https://www.linkedin.com/in/azra-raza-2a34a922

Part 1: The Alien Within

  • Refusing To Allow Any Cancer Patients to Die Twice
  • Roll Up Your Sleeve Research: 40-60 Patients a Week
  • Bidirectional Translational Research
  • Cancer: The Alien Within
  • What Are the Two Common Properties of 200 Different Cancers?  
  • Lessons from Cancer in Immortality
  • A Trillion Dollars on Cancer Research, What Have We Discovered?
  • Why 70% Cancer's Are Cured...Is Terrible news
  • Beating The Dog to Death to Cure Flees
  • Attacking Your Field of Expertise
  • The Wrong Measurement of Success?
  • Too Old and Too Young to Change the Model
  • Confronting "Sunk Cost Bias"
  • A Hundred Million Cells at Stage 1
  • The Anti-Climax of Human Genome Sequencing
  • In Search of The First Cell
  • Cancer and The Aging Connection
  • Cancer on Walk-about

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