biology

Topic 1: What is cancer? How does it start? Why is it difficult to treat? (no articles — do your own research!)
For this topic, please do your own research using your textbook, the internet, or library resources.

Topic 2: CAR-T Therapy is the newest cancer treatment. (3 linked articles)
Article 1 link-https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/first-gene-therapy–a-true-living-drug–on-the-cusp-of-fda-approval/2017/07/11/bd7872a0-618a-11e7-a4f7-af34fc1d9d39_story.html?utm_term=.6ae8cbebe1cd
Article 2 link –
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/30/547293551/fda-approves-first-gene-therapy-treatment-for-cancer
Article 3 link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/10/19/cutting-edge-immunotherapy-treatment-approved-for-yet-another-deadly-cancer/?utm_term=.d41936106b36
Topic 3: Nanomachines to treat cancer? (1 linked article)
Article 4 link (please also watch the video at the end of the article)
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/these-tiny-light-driven-nanomachines-can-destroy-cancer-cells-minutes-1637825

Once you have read the articles, write a BRIEF response (absolutely no more than 1 page, total) in which you address these points:
1) What is one thing that you found out about cancer from your own research that you didn’t know? Cite a reliable resource that you used to learn this information.
2) Why do you think that CAR-T is most effective (& only FDA approved) for treating cancers involving blood cells?
3) Should CAR-T be as expensive as it currently is? Will the cost limit access to the treatment? Depending on your answers, what could be done reduce the cost and/or improve access to the treatment?
4) What is one challenge that will have to be overcome to implement the use of nanomachines as a potential cancer treatment?
5) Tell me the one thing you found to be most interesting from the articles.