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Listen "Episode 222 - “Why Cancer Still Sucks” With David J. Stewart, MD, FRCPC"
Episode Synopsis
This week, we’re joined by David J. Stewart, MD to discuss “Why Cancer Still Sucks” which also happens to be the title of his book. In this episode, Dr. Stewart goes into detail about the things that set cancer research and treatment back despite all of the progress we have made. Dr. Stewart also asserts that although improvement in the treatment of metastatic cancers seems to be slow, we are never more than one or two discoveries away from a major breakthrough.
Dr. David Stewart trained in medical oncology in the Department of Developmental Therapeutics at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Texas, 1976-1978. He was on staff at MD Anderson from 1978 to 1980, and then in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from 1980 to 2003. He moved back to MD Anderson in 2003 but returned again to the University of Ottawa in 2011 as Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of Medical Oncology.
Since completing his term as division head in 2019, he has continued to teach and to practice oncology in Ottawa. His areas of research interest have included (among others) resistance mechanisms to anticancer agents, pharmacology of anticancer agents, new drug development, the negative impact of dysfunctional regulation and clinical trial designs on the rate of clinical research progress, and the huge costs of this clinical research dysfunction in terms of increased health care costs and lives prematurely lost. He has more than 340 peer-reviewed publications.
In April 2022 he published a book intended for patients entitled “A Short Primer on Why Cancer Still Sucks”, available through Amazon books or his website https://whycancerstillsucks.com/. This book covers several topics, including why cancer is so common, how cancer causes symptoms, different therapies, the future of cancer care, etc. The book also discusses “systems” issues: why it takes too long to develop new drugs, why therapies cost so much, and changes needed to permit much faster, cheaper access to effective new drugs. It also compares the American and Canadian healthcare systems.
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Dr. David Stewart trained in medical oncology in the Department of Developmental Therapeutics at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Texas, 1976-1978. He was on staff at MD Anderson from 1978 to 1980, and then in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from 1980 to 2003. He moved back to MD Anderson in 2003 but returned again to the University of Ottawa in 2011 as Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of Medical Oncology.
Since completing his term as division head in 2019, he has continued to teach and to practice oncology in Ottawa. His areas of research interest have included (among others) resistance mechanisms to anticancer agents, pharmacology of anticancer agents, new drug development, the negative impact of dysfunctional regulation and clinical trial designs on the rate of clinical research progress, and the huge costs of this clinical research dysfunction in terms of increased health care costs and lives prematurely lost. He has more than 340 peer-reviewed publications.
In April 2022 he published a book intended for patients entitled “A Short Primer on Why Cancer Still Sucks”, available through Amazon books or his website https://whycancerstillsucks.com/. This book covers several topics, including why cancer is so common, how cancer causes symptoms, different therapies, the future of cancer care, etc. The book also discusses “systems” issues: why it takes too long to develop new drugs, why therapies cost so much, and changes needed to permit much faster, cheaper access to effective new drugs. It also compares the American and Canadian healthcare systems.
To learn more about Project Purple, visit https://www.projectpurple.org/ or follow us on social media at these links:
https://www.facebook.com/Run4ProjectPurple
https://www.instagram.com/projectpurple/
https://twitter.com/Run4Purple
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgA8nVhUY6_MLj5z3rnDQZQ
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