Cancer immunologist challenging conventional thinking on advanced cancer. Targeting #cancer cachexia to help patients survive.
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My book is out.
When the Body Turns Against Itself: A Patient's Guide to Cancer Cachexia.
Plain language. No jargon. Honest about what we know and what we don't.
For every family watching a loved one waste away.
amazon.com/dp/B0HKWZLF7P
The track record is sobering: appetite stimulants, ghrelin agonists, single cytokine blockers, anabolics. None delivered lasting functional or survival benefit. My read: they all aimed at one molecule while the disease is a whole-system disorder.
This review I wrote with a Stanford collaborator. Its question: why has decades of cachexia drug development failed — and what should the field do instead?
If a broad immune correction worked in the lab, the bigger question is why cachexia drugs have failed patients for decades. Next week's paper — written with a Stanford collaborator — is our answer.