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I am a cancer specialist and I approve of this story. The main thing I would suggest is that yes some immunotherapy is like "giving your building inspectors machine guns," but I'd say that more of it is about getting rid of the fake building permits.
I am trying to understand the difference between a benign tumor and a malignant one. Can you please help explain the difference? I recently had surgery to remove a benign tumor I got in my face, and I have been trying to study a bit on the topic since 😅
When I had cancer in my left arm, the solution was quick, easy, and gruesome. They just chopped it out. I was in danger of losing my arm (or worse), but the surgery went well, despite the awful scar. I can still count to ten, I can still type, I'm alive and I don't have cancer - so that was a win.
Same thing happened to my mother but it came back twice. She's now had chunks cut out of her arms from her hand to her shoulder and does chemo every other week.
@@alexsheppard237 The scar is about 4" long, diagonally on my forearm. They took so much flesh out that there's still a big "dent" there, but it's had no impact on the musculature or functionality of my arm. The only long-term effect is I'll need to keep it covered whenever I go out for the rest of my life, because that area will always be prone to melanoma again, plus, for some inexplicable reason, is easily prone to sunburn.
@@tylernorby4939 Mine didn't come back, but they did have to do a second surgery. After they did a biopsy on the chunk they took out, they found that the cancer went to the edge of it, meaning there was still some left - so they had to do a second, nastier surgery, where they came back and scooped out more.
I am a musician and I just can’t think about even a little part of my finger getting cut off. So even if I live after a bad disease, I am so paranoid about anything happening to my hands and arms.
Cancer researcher here! Very good video on one of the hallmarks of cancer: Immune Escape. I'd like to point out that in this last stage of dangerous cancer, part of the immune system does more than just suppress T cells, they actually get their hands dirty with building tumor town too. In a real tumor, the majority of the occupants aren't necessarily cancer cells. The rest are either trying to restrain the tumor, or help it grow bigger as the cancer corrupts the functions of the "normal" cells. It is truly a story of duplicitous agents!
Yep, a large percentage of tumors are actually pro-tumor macrophages secreting anti-inflammatory, pro-vasculature, and pro-remodeling cytokines. The tumor is actually harnessing the branch of the immune response that evolved to fight multicellular parasites.
my mom just passed from liver cancer a week ago. it was horribly dehumanizing, seeing her go from the fierce, strong woman she is to a fragile skeleton. It really broke my heart and it hurt even more knowing how much pain she went through in less than a year. This experience really just solidified my goal to become a specialist when I grow up and found a treatment that gives a 100% survival rate!
I really appreciate how you‘re spreading information on cancer in such a comprehensive and visually stunning way, it‘s important that more people are educated on this topic.
3 days after i turned 18 I discovered my tumor, and since I’ve been diagnosed with cancer I honestly thought I wouldn’t be able to graduate from high school, and that my life would be changed for good. But 3 months later tomorrow, I will be graduating, which is just unbelievable to me. I love watching your videos in these hard times, and it’s great that more people are better educated on this important topic now.
Soliders will always have a few scars, big or small, when they've won the battle. Don't be ashamed of those scars & show the world you're stronger than cancer. You got this, keep fighting man 🫡
I'm 49 and have had stage 4 kidney cancer for 7 years now. If new targeted treatments hadn't arrived when they did (just after my diagnosis) then I don't think I'd still be here. It's a rough battle but one worth fighting. Hang in there mate and keep fighting the good fight, cancer treatments are advancing in massive leaps and bounds now and the outcomes are really improving!
Good luck, don’t give up hope. I don’t know if you are taking chemo or radiation, but I somehow survived something I wasn’t supposed to, the going to school on oxygen for about a year was awkward
@@dr_stevious similar to me, currently I’m taking targeted therapy that just approved by fda in 2021. Even though it’s not the drug that exactly for my case, my condition has improved quite a bit and anyone wouldn’t know if I’m a sick person 😄
@@friendzonedguy5921 That's really great to hear! I hope that the targeted treatments get more precise for your type of cancer, and that they give those nasty cancer cells a good beatdown! Best wishes mate, be strong.
My sister was diagnosed with cancer in August 2021 and passed away in March 2022. This hit home hard. Thank you for your work with this series. It's much appreciated.
My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer 18 years ago. When they found it, they said he had to go to surgery immediately or it could be too late in a couple days. Today we are celebrating father's day and it's his first celebration as a grandpa, for i am a father myself now ❤
People don’t realise the research behind these video’s. The creators of this script have scoured the scientific databases and trustworthy websites of official companies. Nothing from wikepedia and no Facebook and bro science. Proper scientific research like it should be. As a student of biological & medical laboratory research, this makes me so happy. I have to write papers about these kinds of topics and if I mess up even 1 source or if I don’t use a reliable source my career is over. That’s how strict it is. And for good reason. These video’s are like a summary of my colleges. It’s a simplified version and much more interesting because of the animations, and with reliable sources.
Well timed video! I'm a PET scan specialist, and today, 2 of my patients were 100% cancer free after receiving a combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Today was a good day.
@@swordchaos1181 i think chemotherapy is like carpet bombing, killing every cell in the general area of the tumour, both cancerous and healthy. immunotherapy i’m not as certain of, but i think it’s to do with giving your immune system resistance to being tricked by cancer cells not to fight it, so that it can function properly again.
As the son of a woman who was just declared cancer-free after half a year's treatment of breast cancer, it really does mean a lot to me that you're covering this topic so much, in an effort to help your viewers better understand this terrible condition, and with a bright note coming along with even the darkest chapters. Thank you so much!
My mom died of cancer 5 months ago. It spread like napalm…all it took was 3 weeks, to go from totally healthy to death bed. We have to fight cancer and make it chronic, cancer has to become a thing of the past and it will! One day, hundreds of millions of people will be alive that luckily won’t know the pain we know today. They will take a few pills a day and keep their cancer in check indefinitely!
I’m a non-smoker stage 4 lung cancer patient. I’m taking a targeted medicine which was approved in 2014. Thank you all the medical professionals for literally saving lives. Also, thank you the channel staff for making this video. I’ll share to my friends and family for sure.
Lost my father 2 weeks back. He didn’t smoke and had stage four lung cancer. Even though we knew the chances of survival were less for him, newer technologies helped him to lower the pain and die with ease. I hope all the cancers will be curable soon.
12 years ago. My father had passed away after an intense battle with cancer (Specific one called: Bile Duct). It was a tough time for him even when first moved into Winnipeg, he had no way of getting his life free from it. To this day, and always I will miss him to my dearest heart. Happy Father’s Day everyone. And I miss you dad 😢❤
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Because the cancer cells have no "goal." They simply are existing. It is easy to humanize different things, as this video does, because it makes it a bit easier to understand but cancer cells simply exist. They aren't like a parasite that wants to reproduce from a host, they are just abnormal cells that due to errors in their genetic code are causing issues. They aren't "intentionally" causing any problems. Cells don't have any "desires" in general, they just respond to chemical stimuli. They aren't like multicellular organisms that have higher cognitive functions.
Life is cancerous by nature. Everything from microbes to humans will do everything they can to prosper and spread, even if it means destroying its environment. What really shocks me, is the fact that life will try to spread everywhere. Even now life is trying to find ways to spread out into the universe. That's crazy!
@@WildsDreams45 I mean nature typically keeps things in check and equilibrium. I don’t think there’s any know biological organisms that can affect their environment like humans can.
I'm so glad to see you bringing up immunotherapy. While its recognition is recent, the theory has been around for decades. My best friend when I was a child in the '70s was one of the first test subjects of immunotherapy. He was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 6, and he was given six months to live. His mother took him to a therapist named Dr. Livingston in San Diego, who was experimenting with this new concept she called immunotherapy. The idea was pretty basic: she trained the immune system to fight the cancer cells by coating them with tuberculosis. As you point out in this video, cancer spreads by convincing the immune system that it isn't a threat. So her idea was to give it something that it knew to fight on top of what she wanted it to fight. The system worked much of the time. However, the AMA was too stubborn to take her work seriously, and they refused to recognize her work as legitimate. She was called a quack, and fell into obscurity. About a decade after her death, her work was carried on once again, and built up; this time it was taken more seriously. A few years ago it was given the Pulitzer Prize for Medicine, and is now considered one of the four pillars for fighting cancer. People should know, though, that it all traces back to Dr. Virginia Livingston. (To be fair, her theories on what caused cancer were bogus, and her record keeping left much to be desired; both of which damaged her credibility. But she deserves the credit for coming up with the theories that led to the current treatment of cancer.)
Every single person on my dad side of the family died from cancer, I'm so scared of it that I can hardly sleep. Knowing that it has already started and died a million times and I didnt even notice is both terrifying and comforting.
That's why getting medical check annually is important. We don't exactly know when big tumor will grow inside ourselves until it's too late or founded by doctors.
The largest tragedy of cancer is the gross misunderstanding of the root causes, which a long with bias, has lead cancer research down the wrong path. Nuclear transfer studies have shown cancer is NOT caused by DNA mutations, as is currently accepted. These are at best secondary epiphenomenon, which might play a role in the type and how cancer presents once you have cancer, but are not the root cause. The root cause is now known to be metabolic in origin. The Press Pulse method of treatment is a non toxic treatm and the patient ends up healthier after treatment. Research and treatment using this knowledge is in it's early stages, but is seeing amazing results. Hopefully soon it will be large RCT trials, but struggles to even be permitted vs standard of care due to the existing dogma. There are many published articles on animals, and I look forward to studies on humans. So far this has been used for case studies on humans, even curing glioblastomas. Highly recommend the research of Dr. Thomas Seyfried. Should he live to see his research completed, he'll be in line for a Nobel prize in medicine.
@@Unsensitive My apologies, but I heavily disagree with your summary of cancer research. I find the research of Dr. Tomas Seyfried to be really interesting though! Cancer metabolism is a hot field of research earning a lot of attention. Cancer is definitely a metabolic disease, and manipulating its metabolism may very well be the key to treating cancer in the future. I do think you may be misunderstanding how cancers grow and evolve. There are genes called tumor suppressors and oncogenes. Every form of cancer that has been studied so far has some combination of silencing tumor suppressors and dysregulating oncogenes, though how each tumor accomplishes that varies wildly. The dysregulation of the cell cycle and cellular machinery manifests as metabolic disturbances that help to sustain an uncontrollably dividing cell. That being said, epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressors is a thing, and nuclear transplantation can reverse epigenetic alterations. I think that certain examples could yield nuclear transplantations that seemingly reverse cancer, but this wouldn't be true for cancers of chromosomal rearrangement or the complete deletions of entire regions of chromosomes containing a number of tumor suppressor genes.
@@Unsensitive Unfortunately, if the research is only done by one person, and only pushed by that one person, it has a better-than-average chance of being quackery. There's a long history of doctors and medical researchers, often very intelligent people, who become convinced that they have found "the truth", and when their ideas don't stand up to scrutiny, double down rather than following good scientific practice and rethinking. I'm looking into Seyfried's work, but much of what I've found so far is not encouraging.
Crazy to think how far medical advances has come to defeating cancer!! My wife lost her brother (age 16) her dad (age 39), had her stomach removed (age 14) and recently gone through a double mysterectomy (age 31) due to the cancer fighting gene mutating and actually causing cancer!! Luckily she survived and an absolute rock ❤️ Every couple of years we always try to raise money for Cancer Research UK to hopefully help others 😊 I would like my partner to speak out a bit more, tell her story to hopefully motivate and help others who are going through it, but she isn't ready yet bless her ❤️
This was really hard and powerful to watch. My dad is in his final stages of terminal brain cancer and is only expected to have a couple months left after fighting for over 2 years. Seeing everything laid out in a way like this sheds light on what's really going on with him, and speaks to the severity of the situation.
hey, i JUST read about this, and, for the looks of it, it may be true and work its about the research of Dr. Thomas Seyfried. Apparently, a 100% carnivore diet may help, idk if it helps on every type and on every stage. but if anything else has failed...
My dad was recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, metastasis. It started in his liver but has spread to his chest and lymph nodes. This video helped me get a better understanding of what his body is going through and why his immune system couldn't prevent it.
In memory of my father who had stage 4 lung cancer. He died last month. Wishing you all have a better life and keep fighting for those who have cancers.
I couldn't stop the tears in my eyes, I needed this so badly! as a person with ADHD its hard to sit and study walls of words and it still make sense at the end, no matter how many times a doctor could explain it; it was still hard for me to understand how severe my moms cancer is, but then Kurzqesagt comes over and whispers in my ear "I got you buddy" ... thank you! thank you! thank you!
@@elijahizere no you can't. People are just lazy addicts. I have REAL aspergers and adhd, and don't tell me it even compares. You don't have music and racing thoughts 24/7 on your mind making you unable to focus on anything.
to be fair this video is barely anything at all. it doesn't say anything new as much as taking old information and dressing it up a bit different. the only real challenge in making this video is in animation.
These cancer videos make me so anxious. I even avoided watching this one until curiosity was stronger. Feeling it can happen to me or my loved ones anytime, or it could be happening right now is just so frightening.
Don't let it worry you too much. What you can do is focus on taking care of yourself by eating cleanly, putting on sunscreen and doing things to support your immune system. It is scary but prevention can help. Don't panic until you actually know that something is wrong, and if it ever does happen, fight!
I find it reassuring to know that it's a natural process and most of the time my body has it all under control. For the times it doesn't, we are getting better technologies all the time. It sounds like we're not too far off treatments and cures for cancers.
It is overwhelming sometimes. But just slow down and take things one step at a time. Point in the direction you want to go and put just one foot forward. Repeat as many times as it takes. Setbacks are a reality, and sometimes they're big. I survived chemo and can tell you that keeping a keen focus on what's important in your life coupled with some healthy determination go a long way. Is some of it luck? Yes. But early detection (my trick was finding normal fleshy tissue that had turned hard and asked my doc why) and proactive treatment help a lot. And don't be afraid to ask questions until you're 100% at peace with the care decisions you'll make. Also, sorry if any of this made things worse.
As a cancer survivor myself, I really appreciated this video. The thing that makes cancer so much more terrifying than other afflictions is that there really is no definitive way to prevent it, and the only recourse is to find better ways to fight it
As a fellow cancer survivor myself I have to slightly disagree. There might be no DEFINITIVE way to prevent it (yet). But a healthy body with a healthy immune system does lower the risk substantially. Cancer wasn't as bad of a thing way back in the old days. Our unhealthy diets and way of life is a paradise for cancer. Today about 40% of people are expected to develop cancer during their lifetime. Those numbers are insane. Basically there are 3 factors to cancer. Health (including mental health), environmental factors and genetics. What made me really mad during the therapy and post cancer care is that somehow only genetics was really talked about. "Did anyone in your family have cancer?". And after the operation when you're "healed", they basically tell you to just live your life as always. But that's wrong. While you can't control your genetics. You DO have some control over what you eat, how healthy of a way you live, and to a certain extend how you protect yourself against environmental factors. Like reducing contact with products that contain Phthalates, BPA and many other unhealthy substances. Most vegetables contain incredible compounds that inhibit cancer growth in a myriad of different ways. Sure you can be unlucky and develop cancer despite doing all you can to lower your risk. Or you can be lucky and never develop cancer despite eating fast food all the time and smoking a pack of tabaco every day. That's just the way the probability game is. But your own decisions DO have significant influence to escape the average statistics. Every one of us does already have ways to fight cancer today while we wait for science to find even more ways.
@mark_of_the_wolf I'm so sorry that happened to you. But while genetics might be the biggest factor, environmental influences should not be underestimated.
When I was still in middle school, my grandmother died of breast cancer, and while I resisted crying at first when seeing her, I ultimately broke down before leaving her hospital room. Now my intent is to delve into the cancer research field and specifically target breast cancer. However, prior to watching this video I never knew how cancer actually kills, so this video was really helpful. Thanks ❤
My little brother is actively fighting cancer. Hes on immunotherapy, and while the cancer hasn't grown since starting it doesn't feel like hes winning. I hope things start to improve soon..
I wish your brother good luck! Here's a quote I really like, maybe it can help him: The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse. So tell him he should be this warrior.
No child should ever have to endure cancer, it’s hard as an adult to have cance, but couldn’t imagine how hard it is for your little brother. May the angels keep him safe and help him to heal x
The way Kurzgesagt tells their stories is just mesmerising, even some topics that I would never have even tried to learn about before, I have started to study in a lot more detail thanks to these videos. Thank you as always Kurzgesagt. Please never stop doing what you're doing.
Yup. This can be turned into an analogy for something else.... Like how bad foreigners come with their bad intentions and ask the country to change its laws/religion/moral code to acomodate the invader: else said country is RACIST!! Losing our language, our cities, our moral code etc, to the ones that are leaving their violent countries and flooding ours, but instead of changing their way of living and become more human.... they come here with their close-minded view on human rights and always ask for more. Destroying what we have, stepping on everything, multiplying, taking over, making up new rules instead of living by ours etc. It's the very same! It's not being racist to fight for your own culture/language IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY. I see it everywhere, countries being taking over by others.... and if you disagree with anything they do and every little favors they ask: then you're "racist!" We are losing.....
@Harper Moore Religion does not have the monopoly on morality. Being an atheist scientist working to help humanity is better than being a religious nutbag bringing up their alleged moral highground in an unrelated comment section. Do sth productive instead
I got a little emotional towards the end when you started talking about our progress with treating cancer more effectively. I'm a cancer survivor myself. I was diagnosed when I was 16 and along the way, I made good friends who were just like me. Unfortunately, I lost quite a few of them to the battle of cancer. I wish dearly that we had made our strides with cancer already before when they were still around. But I am so glad we have made so much progress since then for future children that will be affected by this disease. As a survivor myself, I sincerely thank you guys for spreading information about cancer. You guys are doing the lord's work.
The scariest thing about cancer is that it's often incredibly difficult to detect. Sure, we have all sorts of tests that can identify cancer, but the fact is that in most cases you're not going to ask your doctor for those tests until symptoms have started appearing. Depending on what type of cancer it is, it may be too late to stop it at that point. And yes, there are regular tests for specific types of cancer, like breast cancer or prostate cancer, but you'd never think think to screen for something like pancreatic cancer.
The reason why we don't screen everyone is because all tests have the rist of false positives and false negatives. With many of these tests they aren't accurate enough for it to make sense to screen everyone because you'd end up with way too many false positives and that'd obviously impact people's lives and divert resources for those that need it. This is generally why medicine is fundamentally based on responding to symptoms, if there is a symptom then you already know something is up so a test makes a lot more sense. The exceptions here are either tests that are so accurate that they make sense to everyone or pandemic situations where you know a large % of the population will be affected anyways, and a false positive isn't as big a deal since you might as well be cautious.
If u do blood analysis correctly u can detect many type of cancers (u can check pancreatic enzymes, liver enzymes, tumor marker, ecc. If u add to that an abdomen ecography every year, X-rays chest and colonoscopy every 5-10 years (depending on your risk factors) u can detect pretty much everything. U would leave out brain tumours which are rare, for that it would better an mri but yeah they are a lot of exam and many people decide not to do them
@@olivierotorricelli599 The amount of resources that would take up to do that for every person would probably destroy the healthcare system haha. Also blood tests are not that accurate for most cancers as you need baseline levels and a lot of these levels fluctuate throughout the day. They are good if you have a suspicion that something is wrong (other signs and symptoms), but don't work that well as a screening program (with a few exceptions).
@@TheMagicalPinata The US healthcare system yes. Not all healthcare in the world is as ridiculously expensive as it is in the US. On the other hand, technologies like MRI if used in-mass will likely become cheaper and cheaper, making them a good option for early cancer detection, all cancer-type detection, and making more effective, surgeries, immunotherapy or radiation.
5-6 years ago my aunt had lost her battle to cancer from some baby powder (I think so it’s what I heard) that had bad stuff in it and caused hell inside her body. I always think about her every once in a while and how much of an angel she was and I can’t believe this is what could have been happening inside of her. Really wish she won the fight. Love you aunty ❤️❤️❤️
If Kurzgesagt made a game themed around topics like the Immune System and Space with the iconic art style, I think we can all agree it would be a masterpiece Edit: yay they are actually making a game
You know a topic is well explained, when you watch a video once and you can explain it to another person with likle 90% recall rate. The images and stories make it so easy to understand and remember. This is what schools should do for all important topics. Well done Kurzgesagt, well done!
Both my parents have dealt with cancer. My dad died of leukaemia 2 months ago. My mum is still alive. I’m 15 and I’ve had to witness the effects of cancer first hand, several times. Thank you for this video. It explained so much.
I also lost my parents when I was young. You’re at a difficult age on your life, where it’s very easy to take the wrong path. Your father and your mother want the best for you, and you need to honour them by being the person they want you to be. Do it for them, and you’ll be happier with life and with yourself.
My wife survived stage 3 stomach cancer (it had metastasized from her ovarian cancer from like 12 yrs prior, before I was in the picture). It got to the point where chemo/radiation stopped working, then put her on a clinical trial, which also didnt work. Then, as a "long shot", tried immunotherapy....and it worked! Shes the strongest person Ive ever known. I highly recommend the Immune System book! Its a great read and its only barely scratching the surface of the topic. One part is kinda tough to get through, but its worth it!
@Five_pebbles_official least effective, how and according to who? Immuno is one of the first things tried (outside of the US). Wouldn't you think the US would follow suit (depending on the stage)? Why should chemo and radiation be first, when its well known how destructive both are to the body?
A good e-friend of mine died last year due to cancer. It kept coming back. Since then seeing videos like this always makes me think of him, and wish that we had the cure sooner.
Two years ago, I was diagnosed with stage III pancreatic cancer. The doctor said there was no hope anymore. But I had a different idea. I was going to fight the final battle, whether cancer cells died or my own. I was hospitalized right away and had anticancer drugs and healthy dietary habits so that my immune system could fight well. From then on, a miracle occurred a year and three months after pancreatic cancer. The doctor said that the patient's dietary habits increased his chances of survival in the future. I had hope. A year and eight months of cancer, all the cancer cells in my body were annihilated. This is miraculous, but you shouldn't let your guard down. We're still trying to keep cancer from coming back with healthy eating habits and steady exercise. I hope this article will go to all cancer patients:)
@IgorNV the immune system IS disturbing. It's a violent, foaming-at-the-mouth monster which causes just few enough issues compared to what it solves that it's a net benefit You have a whole organ- the thyroid- whose only purpose is stopping the immune system from creating cells that'll kill yourself. This process is so intensive that your thyroid slowly destroys itself over your lifetime, and your immune system weakens over that time period.
I also thought it was cutsie and not disturbing other than thinking about the loved ones I’ve lost to cancer. Glad we are learning so much about it all 🤍
I’m 17 and today i was diagnosed with cancer, so videos like these help me grasp what i have and further treatment i may have to go through to treat it, so thank you
In january, i've been diagnosed with a cancer and since February i've been doing chemo. Luckily, the cancer has significantly decreased since and as I am writing this, I am in remission !! Thanks Kurzgesagt for this video, i'd love to see a "how Chemotherapy works?" video so i can show my friend what really went down in my body since February. =))) Thanks again !
Same here, i was diagnosed with colon cancer the second of december, and i have been recieving chemo non stop since the 15th of january . Luckly for me its working, it has decreased many Centimeters, and as far as i know, the metastasis are decreasing too, with luck i wil be operated soon. As you said i would love to see a video about how chemo works, a know a bit due to my degree but i would love to see how they explain it. To end all i can say is be strong and keep fighting friend. we both can do this, and remember, a great portion of this battle take place in our mind. Good luck. P.S. Sorry for the broken english
Watching this video makes me feel appreciated for the intelligence that created my body with such care and dilligence! And also feel appreciation for those cells who are fighting battles every day! I salute you little ones.
Covering cancer is such a big deal because everyone knows someone who is or was affected by it. My grandmother in law is currently fighting lung cancer for the 3rd time and her body rejected her chemo last week. She is also doing immunotherapy. Irs been incredibly hard but we still have hope!❤ Edit: thanks for the likes and kind words! I hope humanity can kick cancer's ass!
Everyone knows someone who is or was affected by it. Strangely though... I don't. I know a couple of people with rare conditions that are no less horrible though. :(
One of my favorite RUclipsrs died to cancer a little less than a year ago 😔 so even is someone may not know someone personally effected by it lots of people know just because someone they idolize got it.
I study land management and planning, and I've also got an interest in biology and how the body functions. The analogy and metaphors used to break this down was so well done
My father was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer in October of last year. Thanks to immune therapy he has a fighting chance at living a few more good years as the tumors in his lungs are pretty much gone or dead and the main one in his kidney is arrested. This cancer doesn't respond to chemotherapy, and if it weren't for such rapidly evolving immune therapies he likely wouldn't even be here today. Great video, it really broke everything down so simply, especially for people in these horrible situations that can only sit and wonder how this could even happen.
Big shout-out to the artists and the animators involved in this video. The concept, the illustrations, the compositions, the colours. All of it is so cinematic. The best content I've watched this week.
I was an organ donor to donate a part of my liver to the recipient after they contracted stage 4 cancer. Its good to know that you're covering more about cancer and spreading the awareness of it!
Neat video, three time survivor here. You forgot the main reason cancer occurs, apoptosis or preprogrammed cell death. When every cell is born it says “in three days and two hours I expire” the cell destroys itself by destroying its cell wall, when its time is up. You get that one defunct cell that says “I DON’T want to die” and instead of death it survives, and replicates another cell like it that doesn’t want to die, and so on.
If you by the book (I’ve read it, it’s a great oversimplification of the immune system) It details the 3 main cancer genes Like the first one (obviously) The disabling of tumour suppression Then comes Deactivating apoptosis Then oncogenes which greatly accelerate cell replication You are very lucky to be a 3x survivor, I hope you life your extra chances to the best you can
What a great video, after watching this my immune cells have learnt how to defeat cancer more effectively. They now feel motivated because you have showed the world their heroic acts. Thank you.
Yes people should be more grateful their bodies, they are always working so hard to keep us breathing etc. Most people treat this shell like total garbage.... it's beyond sad, but I know it isnt easy to eat well and exercise. But cigarettew, alcohol, drugs etc.... not an excuse. People are monsters.
@@FocusedFighter777 i agree with the whole drugs etc are stupid but you know that you are talking about other peoples bodies? They are the body so they themselves are fighting for themselves and i think that because they are doing it to themselves that people can't really be seen as "monsters" just because they are unhealthy. Just not responsible.
I just wanted to comment that I appreciate these videos as just this weekend my father was diagnosed with cancer. We wont know the severity until Monday and frankly I'm afraid but knowing more about cancer has helped eased the pain and anxiety. I never got along with my father but I've always respected him and I pray it's treatable and if not that he can live as comfortable as possible before the day comes. He's the first person I've ever known to get cancer and I hope everything works for the best. I have faith in science and as a believer I have faith no matter the outcome.
My mom is currently going through immunotherapy, and while the cancer isn't gone yet, she hasn't been on it that long and already the cancer has shrunk nearly 50%. Hoping and praying it removes the cancer completely. Given enough time, humanity will eventually solve all our problems, so even if we don't have the solutions now, I'm sure we will someday.
thank you guys for making videos like this one i have malignant lymphoma and you guys have really helped me understand what it happening inside my body
@@helenkeller9182 yeah it's always a scary thought. I always try to be healthy and avoid it but it's always something that can just pop up and ruin your life...
The attention to detail in your videos is truly out of this world. When you talked about cutting off supplies and cancer cells learning to live with fewer resources, one of the cells appeared to hold its breath! What you do is absolutely amazing. Every single one of you, I have absolutely no doubt, will have already or will save lives because you'll have inspired our next doctors, nurses, researchers and so on. I would encourage you all to smile at the world and feel rightfully proud of what you've accomplished with Kurzgesagt.
Several years ago, a family friend of ours was suffering from stage four breast cancer. She fully believed her kid was going to grow up without her. One course of immunotherapy later, and the cancer vanished completely. She's been in remission ever since.
I didn't have a tumor, so my cancer was a little different but when I had leukemia (APL), I often visualized my rouge multiplying promyelocytes cells getting nuked by my chemo. I envisioned the chemo as a sentient sword like Nightblood, wanting to destroying evil. 🤣 In my imagination there were also a lot of cells animated like knights on horseback and duels to the death. But this animation is also pretty awesome! 👾
@M I don't think a channel that promotes science and facts is a good fit for you. I'm sure there are some nice crystal healing videos you can watch elsewhere.
Radiation therapy specialist and a long time Kurzgesagt fan here. I'm happy to see some more informational videos on cancer. A very interesting, yet horrible type of disease. I promise you all, we are doing our very best. Would love to see some more videos on treatment options.
Just paused the video to say thank you to all the Doctors and Researchers to completely eliminate cancers. My wife is currently fighting stage 4 but i know she will prevail. 💪💪
i am working in an atomic pathology lab and every day comes so many cases with all sort of cancers. clinical stories when people overcome cancer 10-20 years ago gives me so much hope. i am cheerful for everyone who is fighting it now, you are heroes for all humanity!
Cancer researcher here too. Amazing video and very accurate in understanding. Love the focus on evolution which is such an important part of tumor development that is often overlooked. Some additional points: Cancer drugs may also select the most resistant cells in the same ways as the immune activity does, leaving the most resistant cells to overtake the tumor population. This is why treatments often end with resistance and why multiple different drugs often are used at the same time. The part of cancer that kills patients in the vast majority of cases is the spread of the first tumor, allowing it to form secondary tumors in other parts of the body. While therapy targeting the first tumor has been investigated for many decades, it has only recently become a focus to develop treatments specifically against the spread of cancer (even though this is the most lethal feature). From my perspective, I can't help but feel like there is still too big a focus on the development therapies trying the make the primary tumor smaller (this is one of the primary values used to evaluate drug effectiveness), as a smaller tumor doesn't necessarily mean a less lethal one. Developing treatments that reduce the spread of the tumor has such potential to increase patient survival, but it has gotten so little focus in comparison. Thanks for your good work.
I really appreciate the work your team does Kurzgesagt by spreading awareness. I lost my mum a month ago to sarcoma and this video brought me to tears. Thank you
What's so scary is that cancer sometimes builds dark big cities without the "rest of the world" noticing. Then, suddenly, the city is so huge and influential that it pulls the "whole country" into the abyss.
Love the “order 66” touch, from a die hard Star Wars fan. But in all seriousness, this was a great informative video of something I did not fully comprehend before. Thanks!
This might be among the best Kurzgesagt videos ever in terms of everything including animation, concept, explanation, etc. in my opinion. One of their masterpieces.
As a person with autism, It's quite hard for a person like me to understand this subject in things like school. But i can learn everything about the subject with the visuals. Thank you, Kurzgesagt.
My mother passed away of pancreatic cancer on the 18th, I wish so deeply for us to have found a way to eliminate this terrible illness from the world. Thank you for the genuine informative video, and the hopeful outlook for the future.
Sorry. It does not. It's been almost a year since I lost my father to pancreatic cancer. It feels like it was yesterday. You get used to the feeling of missing them... But you never get over it @@whatzitooyaa1599
Choosing a metaphor for explaining a complex phenomena in detail is such an effective way of sharing scientific concepts. Also not easy to do! Great video.
Wow Thank you for the new knowledge. I thought our bodies gave up on cancer cells from the beginning. But in fact, our body fights against it before it lose. Hope we can find curable methods for cancer in the future.
I'm 19, just graduated and a few months ago they found multiple very large tumors in my mother, in very sensitive area's. At the 21st of June we'll recieve the final results of a very long scan she had a few days ago. I always kinda knew what cancer was, but not this much. I'm happy but also sad after watching this video, but I'm mostly thankful to Kurzgesagt for giving me the opportunity to understand what my mother probably has, this channel always teaches me something knew. I hope the results will be great, allowing me to return to this video in a few days with hopefully to knowledge I can still have a mother in the future.
Lost my mom to cancer in 2005 which lead me down a very long and winding path to the depressed person I am today. Seeing the utopian picture at the end of the video depicting a world free of cancer really brought a tear to my eye. Thank you to everybody trying to defeat this evil.
I lost mine in 2007 for the same reason and I am depressed as well. I really hope technology will do us a favour and let us see the cure for cancer in our lifetime hopefully.
@@WhitefoxSpaceSorry for your loss. I hope you realize there are so many better things to do to make your mom proud of you even if she is dead... And i hope you recover from Depression. Much love man ❤
My grandma was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in april and sadly passed away last month. Crazy how late you can notice something so destructive happening to you, but nice to now know what's happening inside your body once you have cancer. Hope you all take good care of yourself, and keep a strong relationship with the people that are important to you!
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why tf does this have 3 likes and 0 replies
Why does this have 6 likes and 1 reply
Because Gates is a megalomaniac eugenicist.
Gates Ventures is a wonderful establishment and the Gates Foundation is doing so much good in the world
Why can't you build h?
I am a cancer specialist and I approve of this story. The main thing I would suggest is that yes some immunotherapy is like "giving your building inspectors machine guns," but I'd say that more of it is about getting rid of the fake building permits.
As cancer Specialist, have you seen the Anime "Cells at Work"?
Especially the Cancer Episodes?
Once Upon a Time... Life, did this in the 80s. This isn’t a new idea.
Would it be accurate to say it is like establishing martial law? Like go ahead and flash your permits, you're going to die anyways.
@@Hanmacx I thought about this anime during the whole video. Code black is 100% better tho
I am trying to understand the difference between a benign tumor and a malignant one. Can you please help explain the difference?
I recently had surgery to remove a benign tumor I got in my face, and I have been trying to study a bit on the topic since 😅
When I had cancer in my left arm, the solution was quick, easy, and gruesome. They just chopped it out. I was in danger of losing my arm (or worse), but the surgery went well, despite the awful scar. I can still count to ten, I can still type, I'm alive and I don't have cancer - so that was a win.
Same thing happened to my mother but it came back twice. She's now had chunks cut out of her arms from her hand to her shoulder and does chemo every other week.
Does the scar ever go away? How large is it?
@@alexsheppard237 The scar is about 4" long, diagonally on my forearm. They took so much flesh out that there's still a big "dent" there, but it's had no impact on the musculature or functionality of my arm. The only long-term effect is I'll need to keep it covered whenever I go out for the rest of my life, because that area will always be prone to melanoma again, plus, for some inexplicable reason, is easily prone to sunburn.
@@tylernorby4939 Mine didn't come back, but they did have to do a second surgery. After they did a biopsy on the chunk they took out, they found that the cancer went to the edge of it, meaning there was still some left - so they had to do a second, nastier surgery, where they came back and scooped out more.
I am a musician and I just can’t think about even a little part of my finger getting cut off. So even if I live after a bad disease, I am so paranoid about anything happening to my hands and arms.
Cancer researcher here! Very good video on one of the hallmarks of cancer: Immune Escape. I'd like to point out that in this last stage of dangerous cancer, part of the immune system does more than just suppress T cells, they actually get their hands dirty with building tumor town too. In a real tumor, the majority of the occupants aren't necessarily cancer cells. The rest are either trying to restrain the tumor, or help it grow bigger as the cancer corrupts the functions of the "normal" cells. It is truly a story of duplicitous agents!
Yep, a large percentage of tumors are actually pro-tumor macrophages secreting anti-inflammatory, pro-vasculature, and pro-remodeling cytokines. The tumor is actually harnessing the branch of the immune response that evolved to fight multicellular parasites.
and what about the Immune Order 66 where normal cells get converted and attack other normal cells?
Thank you very much for the work that you do. You are a good person.
This comment gave me cancer.
Thank you for your work! I hope we're able to solve cancer soon, it's truly terrible.
my mom just passed from liver cancer a week ago. it was horribly dehumanizing, seeing her go from the fierce, strong woman she is to a fragile skeleton. It really broke my heart and it hurt even more knowing how much pain she went through in less than a year. This experience really just solidified my goal to become a specialist when I grow up and found a treatment that gives a 100% survival rate!
I am sad for your loss
I'm so sorry for your loss.. Your mom shall rest in peace and won't suffer from this disgusting cancer.
@@mlblvchiladybug ❤️❤️❤️
She will always be with you even if you won't be able to see her, I am sure you will feel her love around you🙏
Go on 💪
I really appreciate how you‘re spreading information on cancer in such a comprehensive and visually stunning way, it‘s important that more people are educated on this topic.
Agreed!
Def agreed! And I'm certainly not just typing this bc this is going to become top comment
This is gonna be top comment
@@dustandechoes2agreed
It's amazing that this sort of content is free but it's only possible with our support like not using add block, Patreon, and merch.
3 days after i turned 18 I discovered my tumor, and since I’ve been diagnosed with cancer I honestly thought I wouldn’t be able to graduate from high school, and that my life would be changed for good. But 3 months later tomorrow, I will be graduating, which is just unbelievable to me. I love watching your videos in these hard times, and it’s great that more people are better educated on this important topic now.
congratulations!! I'm so happy for you man, you're strong as hell ❤
Congrats!! That's an incredible accomplishment, and I love the attitude! You are an inspiration!
Hell yea, congrats dude
Wow, you’ve been very unlucky but you’re stronger than a lot of people
Ever heard of push pulse therapy?
If my future kids one day can tell me "don't worry, it's just cancer", I'm gonna cry.
Sir/Mam this was beautiful
Kurzgesagt actually had an animated kid quote (in caption) that in a video, several years ago
@@SkyenNovaA I mean it's still super deadly if you get it so I wouldn't say "only" but yes I get what you mean because we have a lot to fight it.
How many times nowadays have you heard "don't worry, it's just tuberculosis"?
Imagine they go like: "Dont be a baby grandpa, its just stage 4 lung cancer, it will go on its own"
Ive been fighting cancer now for 4 years, multiple skin grafts and may lose my arm. Still fighting 💪 but the struggle is real.
You got this 💪
Soliders will always have a few scars, big or small, when they've won the battle. Don't be ashamed of those scars & show the world you're stronger than cancer. You got this, keep fighting man 🫡
Hope you get better
Please don't die buddy, I hope your still alive. Goodluck
I hope you win this battle!
I'm 33 y.o & been fighting stage 4 lung cancer for exactly 1 year this month. Cheers to human ingenuity and also to survive another year!! 🙌
Please research into fasting, it works. Please
I'm 49 and have had stage 4 kidney cancer for 7 years now. If new targeted treatments hadn't arrived when they did (just after my diagnosis) then I don't think I'd still be here. It's a rough battle but one worth fighting. Hang in there mate and keep fighting the good fight, cancer treatments are advancing in massive leaps and bounds now and the outcomes are really improving!
Good luck, don’t give up hope. I don’t know if you are taking chemo or radiation, but I somehow survived something I wasn’t supposed to, the going to school on oxygen for about a year was awkward
@@dr_stevious similar to me, currently I’m taking targeted therapy that just approved by fda in 2021. Even though it’s not the drug that exactly for my case, my condition has improved quite a bit and anyone wouldn’t know if I’m a sick person 😄
@@friendzonedguy5921 That's really great to hear! I hope that the targeted treatments get more precise for your type of cancer, and that they give those nasty cancer cells a good beatdown! Best wishes mate, be strong.
My sister was diagnosed with cancer in August 2021 and passed away in March 2022. This hit home hard. Thank you for your work with this series. It's much appreciated.
Wow that must have been hard, keep going ur doing amazing!!
sorry for your loss one of my friends had cancer and passed away
@@GIGATHEMAD sorry for both of your loses
@@alexandrugabrielburea6632 thank you
mine was 2! She survived and now she smokes... some people
My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer 18 years ago. When they found it, they said he had to go to surgery immediately or it could be too late in a couple days. Today we are celebrating father's day and it's his first celebration as a grandpa, for i am a father myself now ❤
I'm happy for your family, congratulations on becoming a father !
What a twist! Congratulations to both of you!
happy father's day to you both! congrats!
so glad to hear they found it and the he's still around!
congrats homie
People don’t realise the research behind these video’s. The creators of this script have scoured the scientific databases and trustworthy websites of official companies. Nothing from wikepedia and no Facebook and bro science. Proper scientific research like it should be. As a student of biological & medical laboratory research, this makes me so happy. I have to write papers about these kinds of topics and if I mess up even 1 source or if I don’t use a reliable source my career is over. That’s how strict it is. And for good reason. These video’s are like a summary of my colleges. It’s a simplified version and much more interesting because of the animations, and with reliable sources.
Well timed video! I'm a PET scan specialist, and today, 2 of my patients were 100% cancer free after receiving a combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Today was a good day.
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Would be really interesting to see how these treatments help you fight cancer, explained by Kurzgesagt.
@@swordchaos1181 Much agreed
The physics of pet is so cool, creating antimatter inside the patients body
@@swordchaos1181 i think chemotherapy is like carpet bombing, killing every cell in the general area of the tumour, both cancerous and healthy. immunotherapy i’m not as certain of, but i think it’s to do with giving your immune system resistance to being tricked by cancer cells not to fight it, so that it can function properly again.
As the son of a woman who was just declared cancer-free after half a year's treatment of breast cancer, it really does mean a lot to me that you're covering this topic so much, in an effort to help your viewers better understand this terrible condition, and with a bright note coming along with even the darkest chapters. Thank you so much!
that makes me so happy to hear. please cherish every day. i hope your mom will stay healthy for a long time.
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nice one 👍
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My mom died of cancer 5 months ago. It spread like napalm…all it took was 3 weeks, to go from totally healthy to death bed. We have to fight cancer and make it chronic, cancer has to become a thing of the past and it will!
One day, hundreds of millions of people will be alive that luckily won’t know the pain we know today. They will take a few pills a day and keep their cancer in check indefinitely!
I'm so terribly sorry for your loss. I lost my Dad to Cancer last October.
Sorry to hear that.
So sorry for your loss
Sorry for your loss.
I'm sorry for your loss.
i can’t even imagine how it’s possible to talk about the world’s most dangerous disease like it’s a kid’s tale. this one is truly a masterpiece
my father says im hipochondric but im still not that scared bc he illustrated and explained it so well,
I’m a non-smoker stage 4 lung cancer patient. I’m taking a targeted medicine which was approved in 2014. Thank you all the medical professionals for literally saving lives. Also, thank you the channel staff for making this video. I’ll share to my friends and family for sure.
Hope you get better dear :(
All the best wishes to you stay strong!
may i ask how they think you got it?
you dont need to smoke to get cancer, poluted air does damage if not more than smoking
Is it adenocarcinoma? My best wishes for your recovery.
My cancer surgery was 5 weeks ago, and I can't thank you enough for helping me visualise more clearly what has been going on inside my body.
Have a speedy recovery. Wish you all the best Nikki 🙏❤
I hope you are okay dear 💕 all the best 🥰
Wishing you better health!
I hope your surgery went well and your health is on the rise from here!!
Wish you better health
Lost my father 2 weeks back. He didn’t smoke and had stage four lung cancer. Even though we knew the chances of survival were less for him, newer technologies helped him to lower the pain and die with ease. I hope all the cancers will be curable soon.
There will never be a cure but there will definitely be many new treatments that pharmaceutical companies can profit from the chronic therapies
Already a cure is found eating extremely healthy and staying to a hard diet
I read that as "I lost 2 fathers ..." and I was like "What?!"
there weill be a cure
@@lillyanneserrelio2187 There is a prevention method, called ketogenic diet.
12 years ago. My father had passed away after an intense battle with cancer (Specific one called: Bile Duct). It was a tough time for him even when first moved into Winnipeg, he had no way of getting his life free from it. To this day, and always I will miss him to my dearest heart. Happy Father’s Day everyone. And I miss you dad 😢❤
I'm so sorry for your loss. But keep on going and let your father's loss be a motive for you to keep on going. You got this!
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Can we all just appreciate how kid-friendly these educational videos are?
It can literally be taught in schools this...
Kids can be dangerous IRL 😂
yeah it is already used
I know someone who is researching cancer, he found something he made his wife and his research student get cancer
If they did, they would need to provide a warning not to try to create tumortown in real life.
The channel owner felt that they have the right to prevent people from reading my educational comment, meaning they feel they can choose what people are allowed to know or not allowed to know. Obvious dictatorship. They are ignorant to the fact that other commenters had received email notifications that included my previous comment which they can’t delete 😂.
“Cancer is a game with no winners” the fact that this disease will do everything it can to survive and ultimately kill itself is what shocks me!
Sounds alot like humans
Because the cancer cells have no "goal." They simply are existing. It is easy to humanize different things, as this video does, because it makes it a bit easier to understand but cancer cells simply exist. They aren't like a parasite that wants to reproduce from a host, they are just abnormal cells that due to errors in their genetic code are causing issues. They aren't "intentionally" causing any problems. Cells don't have any "desires" in general, they just respond to chemical stimuli. They aren't like multicellular organisms that have higher cognitive functions.
Life is cancerous by nature. Everything from microbes to humans will do everything they can to prosper and spread, even if it means destroying its environment.
What really shocks me, is the fact that life will try to spread everywhere. Even now life is trying to find ways to spread out into the universe. That's crazy!
@@WildsDreams45 I mean nature typically keeps things in check and equilibrium. I don’t think there’s any know biological organisms that can affect their environment like humans can.
Henrietta Lacks’ cancer: speak for yourself
I'm so glad to see you bringing up immunotherapy. While its recognition is recent, the theory has been around for decades. My best friend when I was a child in the '70s was one of the first test subjects of immunotherapy. He was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 6, and he was given six months to live. His mother took him to a therapist named Dr. Livingston in San Diego, who was experimenting with this new concept she called immunotherapy. The idea was pretty basic: she trained the immune system to fight the cancer cells by coating them with tuberculosis. As you point out in this video, cancer spreads by convincing the immune system that it isn't a threat. So her idea was to give it something that it knew to fight on top of what she wanted it to fight. The system worked much of the time. However, the AMA was too stubborn to take her work seriously, and they refused to recognize her work as legitimate. She was called a quack, and fell into obscurity. About a decade after her death, her work was carried on once again, and built up; this time it was taken more seriously. A few years ago it was given the Pulitzer Prize for Medicine, and is now considered one of the four pillars for fighting cancer. People should know, though, that it all traces back to Dr. Virginia Livingston. (To be fair, her theories on what caused cancer were bogus, and her record keeping left much to be desired; both of which damaged her credibility. But she deserves the credit for coming up with the theories that led to the current treatment of cancer.)
Every single person on my dad side of the family died from cancer, I'm so scared of it that I can hardly sleep. Knowing that it has already started and died a million times and I didnt even notice is both terrifying and comforting.
Damn you should probabaly get a medical check regulalry
That's why getting medical check annually is important. We don't exactly know when big tumor will grow inside ourselves until it's too late or founded by doctors.
Be healthy, watch yourself. And at last, be happy
stress can lead to it so don't stress over it just live ur life
You should look up apricot kernels/ Amygdalin. 80% success rate. They cure cancer. 10 a day prevents, 40 a day cures.
Thank you so much to all of the people out there researching and studying how to get rid of cancer. You guys really are life changers. ❤
they didnt change anything and are doing it for money no need to thank them
The largest tragedy of cancer is the gross misunderstanding of the root causes, which a long with bias, has lead cancer research down the wrong path.
Nuclear transfer studies have shown cancer is NOT caused by DNA mutations, as is currently accepted.
These are at best secondary epiphenomenon, which might play a role in the type and how cancer presents once you have cancer, but are not the root cause.
The root cause is now known to be metabolic in origin.
The Press Pulse method of treatment is a non toxic treatm and the patient ends up healthier after treatment.
Research and treatment using this knowledge is in it's early stages, but is seeing amazing results. Hopefully soon it will be large RCT trials, but struggles to even be permitted vs standard of care due to the existing dogma.
There are many published articles on animals, and I look forward to studies on humans. So far this has been used for case studies on humans, even curing glioblastomas.
Highly recommend the research of Dr. Thomas Seyfried. Should he live to see his research completed, he'll be in line for a Nobel prize in medicine.
@@Unsensitive My apologies, but I heavily disagree with your summary of cancer research. I find the research of Dr. Tomas Seyfried to be really interesting though! Cancer metabolism is a hot field of research earning a lot of attention. Cancer is definitely a metabolic disease, and manipulating its metabolism may very well be the key to treating cancer in the future.
I do think you may be misunderstanding how cancers grow and evolve. There are genes called tumor suppressors and oncogenes. Every form of cancer that has been studied so far has some combination of silencing tumor suppressors and dysregulating oncogenes, though how each tumor accomplishes that varies wildly. The dysregulation of the cell cycle and cellular machinery manifests as metabolic disturbances that help to sustain an uncontrollably dividing cell.
That being said, epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressors is a thing, and nuclear transplantation can reverse epigenetic alterations. I think that certain examples could yield nuclear transplantations that seemingly reverse cancer, but this wouldn't be true for cancers of chromosomal rearrangement or the complete deletions of entire regions of chromosomes containing a number of tumor suppressor genes.
@@Unsensitive is it possible that our nutrition is the problem?
@@Unsensitive Unfortunately, if the research is only done by one person, and only pushed by that one person, it has a better-than-average chance of being quackery. There's a long history of doctors and medical researchers, often very intelligent people, who become convinced that they have found "the truth", and when their ideas don't stand up to scrutiny, double down rather than following good scientific practice and rethinking. I'm looking into Seyfried's work, but much of what I've found so far is not encouraging.
Crazy to think how far medical advances has come to defeating cancer!!
My wife lost her brother (age 16) her dad (age 39), had her stomach removed (age 14) and recently gone through a double mysterectomy (age 31) due to the cancer fighting gene mutating and actually causing cancer!! Luckily she survived and an absolute rock ❤️
Every couple of years we always try to raise money for Cancer Research UK to hopefully help others 😊
I would like my partner to speak out a bit more, tell her story to hopefully motivate and help others who are going through it, but she isn't ready yet bless her ❤️
To be fair at this point I would be really concerned about the environment they grew up in
You realize it’s very likely your kids could inherit those issues
This has nothing to do with environment, as he said, it is a gene mutation, most probably p53.
DAMN
@@alexbrestowski4131 100% you are right! We have started IVF so they remove that gene thankfully 😊❤️
I lost a dear friend to cancer. She was brilliant and kind. It is such an awful disease. I really hope one day they find the cure for good
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This was really hard and powerful to watch. My dad is in his final stages of terminal brain cancer and is only expected to have a couple months left after fighting for over 2 years. Seeing everything laid out in a way like this sheds light on what's really going on with him, and speaks to the severity of the situation.
I'm so sorry you're both going through this.
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My condolences.
hey, i JUST read about this, and, for the looks of it, it may be true and work
its about the research of Dr. Thomas Seyfried. Apparently, a 100% carnivore diet may help, idk if it helps on every type and on every stage. but if anything else has failed...
My condolences
My dad was recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, metastasis. It started in his liver but has spread to his chest and lymph nodes. This video helped me get a better understanding of what his body is going through and why his immune system couldn't prevent it.
I hope he'll be better soon, I wish he'll be fine very soon🙏
Sorry to hear that. Wishing the best outcome for you and your family -- stay strong ❤🙏
I'm sorry to hear that man, push forward, stay stong!
Exactly what my grandfather has. I wish your father a swift recovery.
Hope he'll get better soon. Stay strong ✊
In memory of my father who had stage 4 lung cancer. He died last month.
Wishing you all have a better life and keep fighting for those who have cancers.
Sorry for your loss...
Condolences to you and your family take it eazy.
I am so sorry for your loss!❤
I’m very sorry for your loss..
Was he bald like walter white?
Its been soo many years ive been following this page and it gets sooo amazing day by day... Love the videos
I couldn't stop the tears in my eyes, I needed this so badly! as a person with ADHD its hard to sit and study walls of words and it still make sense at the end, no matter how many times a doctor could explain it; it was still hard for me to understand how severe my moms cancer is, but then Kurzqesagt comes over and whispers in my ear "I got you buddy" ... thank you! thank you! thank you!
Prayers for the best. I suggest you and her research about fasting = starving cancer cells directly. It does work. Please.
Including me, almost every young person can fit the ADHD diagnosis these days.
@@elijahizere omg shut up with the whole "everyone has adhd nowadays :
@@elijahizere no you can't. People are just lazy addicts. I have REAL aspergers and adhd, and don't tell me it even compares. You don't have music and racing thoughts 24/7 on your mind making you unable to focus on anything.
@@LuisC7 that is quite interesting
It’s so amazing yet terrifying
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I like it..
Nice
The music makes it so scary as well
2 videos in one week! That represents all work and dedication you put in all videos. Keep working on this amazing content!
They must have started using AI tools to create these videos XD
@@sarveshpadav2881 xD
@@sarveshpadav2881i imagine they always used some form of ai tool to help make these videos it
to be fair this video is barely anything at all. it doesn't say anything new as much as taking old information and dressing it up a bit different. the only real challenge in making this video is in animation.
@@mogim815 And even then, this video looks like it skipped over on the animation side of things
the fact our bodies are almost never caught slippin or underprepared for deadly maladies still amazes me today. thank you to my biological arsenal.
Loving the positivity towards cancer treatment on RUclips recently. Hope Hank Green recovers expediently!
I'm really hoping they do one on leukemia
These cancer videos make me so anxious. I even avoided watching this one until curiosity was stronger. Feeling it can happen to me or my loved ones anytime, or it could be happening right now is just so frightening.
Don't let it worry you too much. What you can do is focus on taking care of yourself by eating cleanly, putting on sunscreen and doing things to support your immune system. It is scary but prevention can help. Don't panic until you actually know that something is wrong, and if it ever does happen, fight!
I find it reassuring to know that it's a natural process and most of the time my body has it all under control. For the times it doesn't, we are getting better technologies all the time. It sounds like we're not too far off treatments and cures for cancers.
It is overwhelming sometimes. But just slow down and take things one step at a time. Point in the direction you want to go and put just one foot forward. Repeat as many times as it takes. Setbacks are a reality, and sometimes they're big. I survived chemo and can tell you that keeping a keen focus on what's important in your life coupled with some healthy determination go a long way. Is some of it luck? Yes. But early detection (my trick was finding normal fleshy tissue that had turned hard and asked my doc why) and proactive treatment help a lot. And don't be afraid to ask questions until you're 100% at peace with the care decisions you'll make. Also, sorry if any of this made things worse.
same. it wasn't until I heard today that my mates dad is gona snuff it until I decided to watch it. cancer is a cnut
I thought i was the only one 😅 usually watch every kurzgesagt video the moment i see it uploaded, but this one laid there in my feed till now
As a cancer survivor myself, I really appreciated this video. The thing that makes cancer so much more terrifying than other afflictions is that there really is no definitive way to prevent it, and the only recourse is to find better ways to fight it
As a fellow cancer survivor myself I have to slightly disagree. There might be no DEFINITIVE way to prevent it (yet). But a healthy body with a healthy immune system does lower the risk substantially. Cancer wasn't as bad of a thing way back in the old days. Our unhealthy diets and way of life is a paradise for cancer. Today about 40% of people are expected to develop cancer during their lifetime. Those numbers are insane.
Basically there are 3 factors to cancer. Health (including mental health), environmental factors and genetics. What made me really mad during the therapy and post cancer care is that somehow only genetics was really talked about. "Did anyone in your family have cancer?". And after the operation when you're "healed", they basically tell you to just live your life as always.
But that's wrong. While you can't control your genetics. You DO have some control over what you eat, how healthy of a way you live, and to a certain extend how you protect yourself against environmental factors. Like reducing contact with products that contain Phthalates, BPA and many other unhealthy substances. Most vegetables contain incredible compounds that inhibit cancer growth in a myriad of different ways.
Sure you can be unlucky and develop cancer despite doing all you can to lower your risk. Or you can be lucky and never develop cancer despite eating fast food all the time and smoking a pack of tabaco every day. That's just the way the probability game is. But your own decisions DO have significant influence to escape the average statistics. Every one of us does already have ways to fight cancer today while we wait for science to find even more ways.
@@HuyV This is true, but I was 11 and in perfect health when I got it
As a fellow-fellow survivor, this was eye-opening. But still, I was like 2 years old when i was diagnosed so 🤷♂️
@mark_of_the_wolf I'm so sorry that happened to you. But while genetics might be the biggest factor, environmental influences should not be underestimated.
@@rev4449
"Well, I didn't say that"
- Master Oogway
That is a very dramatic but not at all exaggerated demonstration of how cancer works.
When I was still in middle school, my grandmother died of breast cancer, and while I resisted crying at first when seeing her, I ultimately broke down before leaving her hospital room.
Now my intent is to delve into the cancer research field and specifically target breast cancer. However, prior to watching this video I never knew how cancer actually kills, so this video was really helpful. Thanks ❤
That's probably as tragic as the day you decided to support Tottenham
@@Octavian999 innit just an d bro lives in america but supports a british footy team like 💀
@@Octavian999 like how bad can americans be at footy 💀
why are you guys trashing on the dude for wanting to honor his grandma all because of some game
@@BRY0402exactly, like no one asked that you don’t like a british football team 💀💀
My little brother is actively fighting cancer. Hes on immunotherapy, and while the cancer hasn't grown since starting it doesn't feel like hes winning. I hope things start to improve soon..
Think about this: if it’s not growing, every cell that dies is not going to be replaced
I know someone whose immunotherapy worked for him. He started improving fast. I hope your little brother gets his to work and gets well soon.
I wish your brother good luck! Here's a quote I really like, maybe it can help him:
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
So tell him he should be this warrior.
May your brother win this battle and stay healthy forever and ever 💪
No child should ever have to endure cancer, it’s hard as an adult to have cance, but couldn’t imagine how hard it is for your little brother. May the angels keep him safe and help him to heal x
The way Kurzgesagt tells their stories is just mesmerising, even some topics that I would never have even tried to learn about before, I have started to study in a lot more detail thanks to these videos. Thank you as always Kurzgesagt. Please never stop doing what you're doing.
is it though
Do you mean _mesmerising_ 🤔
Yup.
This can be turned into an analogy for something else....
Like how bad foreigners come with their bad intentions and ask the country to change its laws/religion/moral code to acomodate the invader: else said country is RACIST!!
Losing our language, our cities, our moral code etc, to the ones that are leaving their violent countries and flooding ours, but instead of changing their way of living and become more human.... they come here with their close-minded view on human rights and always ask for more.
Destroying what we have, stepping on everything, multiplying, taking over, making up new rules instead of living by ours etc.
It's the very same!
It's not being racist to fight for your own culture/language IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY.
I see it everywhere, countries being taking over by others.... and if you disagree with anything they do and every little favors they ask: then you're "racist!"
We are losing.....
@Harper Moore Religion does not have the monopoly on morality. Being an atheist scientist working to help humanity is better than being a religious nutbag bringing up their alleged moral highground in an unrelated comment section.
Do sth productive instead
I loved this video.I truly adore the way that you have explained the topic of cancer. I hope you continue with these amazing and fascinating videos!
I got a little emotional towards the end when you started talking about our progress with treating cancer more effectively.
I'm a cancer survivor myself. I was diagnosed when I was 16 and along the way, I made good friends who were just like me. Unfortunately, I lost quite a few of them to the battle of cancer. I wish dearly that we had made our strides with cancer already before when they were still around. But I am so glad we have made so much progress since then for future children that will be affected by this disease.
As a survivor myself, I sincerely thank you guys for spreading information about cancer. You guys are doing the lord's work.
Great to hear man
I'm currently going through a cancer battle of my own, so these videos explaining it have been really helpful. Thanks as always!
Good luck! You got this 💪
Good luck 💜
You got this my man keep goong
Best of luck to you.
Good luck my friend, I wish you well.
The scariest thing about cancer is that it's often incredibly difficult to detect. Sure, we have all sorts of tests that can identify cancer, but the fact is that in most cases you're not going to ask your doctor for those tests until symptoms have started appearing. Depending on what type of cancer it is, it may be too late to stop it at that point.
And yes, there are regular tests for specific types of cancer, like breast cancer or prostate cancer, but you'd never think think to screen for something like pancreatic cancer.
The reason why we don't screen everyone is because all tests have the rist of false positives and false negatives. With many of these tests they aren't accurate enough for it to make sense to screen everyone because you'd end up with way too many false positives and that'd obviously impact people's lives and divert resources for those that need it. This is generally why medicine is fundamentally based on responding to symptoms, if there is a symptom then you already know something is up so a test makes a lot more sense.
The exceptions here are either tests that are so accurate that they make sense to everyone or pandemic situations where you know a large % of the population will be affected anyways, and a false positive isn't as big a deal since you might as well be cautious.
That why you should do monthly or for each year test. Especially when you are older
If u do blood analysis correctly u can detect many type of cancers (u can check pancreatic enzymes, liver enzymes, tumor marker, ecc. If u add to that an abdomen ecography every year, X-rays chest and colonoscopy every 5-10 years (depending on your risk factors) u can detect pretty much everything. U would leave out brain tumours which are rare, for that it would better an mri but yeah they are a lot of exam and many people decide not to do them
@@olivierotorricelli599 The amount of resources that would take up to do that for every person would probably destroy the healthcare system haha.
Also blood tests are not that accurate for most cancers as you need baseline levels and a lot of these levels fluctuate throughout the day. They are good if you have a suspicion that something is wrong (other signs and symptoms), but don't work that well as a screening program (with a few exceptions).
@@TheMagicalPinata The US healthcare system yes. Not all healthcare in the world is as ridiculously expensive as it is in the US. On the other hand, technologies like MRI if used in-mass will likely become cheaper and cheaper, making them a good option for early cancer detection, all cancer-type detection, and making more effective, surgeries, immunotherapy or radiation.
5-6 years ago my aunt had lost her battle to cancer from some baby powder (I think so it’s what I heard) that had bad stuff in it and caused hell inside her body. I always think about her every once in a while and how much of an angel she was and I can’t believe this is what could have been happening inside of her. Really wish she won the fight. Love you aunty ❤️❤️❤️
Talcum powder… did you get legal compensation?
@@CamiWuzHere not sure what my uncle or other side of the family did, but I'm sure they did get legal compensation, Ty sweetie ❤️
Keep going❤❤
If Kurzgesagt made a game themed around topics like the Immune System and Space with the iconic art style, I think we can all agree it would be a masterpiece
Edit: yay they are actually making a game
Pretty sure they might already be making an immersive VR experience. And boy, am I excited!
That sure sounds like and awesome combination! Yes please.
Education and fun🙂
They should. It would be a incredible way to learn. And I bet it would sell quickly
Maybe if it was a game about big pharma saving the universe from itself, it'd get made. Billionaire backers gonna billionaire.
You know a topic is well explained, when you watch a video once and you can explain it to another person with likle 90% recall rate. The images and stories make it so easy to understand and remember. This is what schools should do for all important topics. Well done Kurzgesagt, well done!
Both my parents have dealt with cancer. My dad died of leukaemia 2 months ago. My mum is still alive. I’m 15 and I’ve had to witness the effects of cancer first hand, several times. Thank you for this video. It explained so much.
I also lost my parents when I was young. You’re at a difficult age on your life, where it’s very easy to take the wrong path. Your father and your mother want the best for you, and you need to honour them by being the person they want you to be. Do it for them, and you’ll be happier with life and with yourself.
I’m very sorry to hear about your dad, I hope you are well and feeling better.
May Allah help and guide you on the right path...
Ameen ❤
❤
@@SCSK47man do u realise how disrespectful that’s sounds it’s as if ur comparing his dad to ur dog , nobody cares about ur dog , stfu
Cancer provider here. I feel like all of our patients and staff should watch this. My kids love it.
My wife survived stage 3 stomach cancer (it had metastasized from her ovarian cancer from like 12 yrs prior, before I was in the picture). It got to the point where chemo/radiation stopped working, then put her on a clinical trial, which also didnt work. Then, as a "long shot", tried immunotherapy....and it worked! Shes the strongest person Ive ever known.
I highly recommend the Immune System book! Its a great read and its only barely scratching the surface of the topic. One part is kinda tough to get through, but its worth it!
Hope she is living a prosperous life now
Glad to hear she's doing well. I have a family member in a similar situation. Do you know what type of immunotherapy drug it was?
@Andy-zj6yd unfortunately No I don't. Sorry to hear about your family member! I hope the immuno works like it did for my wife
Kinda ironic that least effective therapy for cancer (especially at that stage) did worked
@Five_pebbles_official least effective, how and according to who? Immuno is one of the first things tried (outside of the US). Wouldn't you think the US would follow suit (depending on the stage)? Why should chemo and radiation be first, when its well known how destructive both are to the body?
A good e-friend of mine died last year due to cancer. It kept coming back. Since then seeing videos like this always makes me think of him, and wish that we had the cure sooner.
Well as cruel as this may seem, people dying from cancer can probably contribute more to research, but stuff like this is still tragic.
Well why not start with corporations in stop letting them put carcinogens in their products?
@@MrPolandballyeah cos the world is quite that simple right
@@coconutsmarties well it could be if enough people used 100% of their brain
@@MrPolandball agreed, but you might as well hope for world peace while you're at it
I’m grateful for the people who work on cancer research, I hope more breakthroughs happen in the near future
Two years ago, I was diagnosed with stage III pancreatic cancer. The doctor said there was no hope anymore. But I had a different idea. I was going to fight the final battle, whether cancer cells died or my own. I was hospitalized right away and had anticancer drugs and healthy dietary habits so that my immune system could fight well. From then on, a miracle occurred a year and three months after pancreatic cancer. The doctor said that the patient's dietary habits increased his chances of survival in the future. I had hope. A year and eight months of cancer, all the cancer cells in my body were annihilated. This is miraculous, but you shouldn't let your guard down. We're still trying to keep cancer from coming back with healthy eating habits and steady exercise. I hope this article will go to all cancer patients:)
I am Korean, and all of this article is translated.
Can you please share your diet
Love the "tumor town" illustration. Genius, simple and easy to understand. Cute and entertaining too, as what this channel always do.
Really? I found the analogy/imagery of police committing large-scale state violence and maybe even genocide a bit... disturbing.
It was also the analogy that was used for the battle against cancer described in the book they released a while back.
@IgorNV the immune system IS disturbing. It's a violent, foaming-at-the-mouth monster which causes just few enough issues compared to what it solves that it's a net benefit
You have a whole organ- the thyroid- whose only purpose is stopping the immune system from creating cells that'll kill yourself. This process is so intensive that your thyroid slowly destroys itself over your lifetime, and your immune system weakens over that time period.
@@IgorNVHow is that disturbing
I also thought it was cutsie and not disturbing other than thinking about the loved ones I’ve lost to cancer. Glad we are learning so much about it all 🤍
I’m 17 and today i was diagnosed with cancer, so videos like these help me grasp what i have and further treatment i may have to go through to treat it, so thank you
hoping u make it 🙏🙏🙏, if u dont min me asking, what type was it?
I hope you’re getting better
Kick it up bro, it's about mindset!
I'm wishing you the best! Make cancer cry and run away in tears!
You can do it🙏
In january, i've been diagnosed with a cancer and since February i've been doing chemo.
Luckily, the cancer has significantly decreased since and as I am writing this, I am in remission !!
Thanks Kurzgesagt for this video, i'd love to see a "how Chemotherapy works?" video so i can show my friend what really went down in my body since February. =)))
Thanks again !
Your journey of healing will come soon, you can do this!
Go for that W
Same here, i was diagnosed with colon cancer the second of december, and i have been recieving chemo non stop since the 15th of january . Luckly for me its working, it has decreased many Centimeters, and as far as i know, the metastasis are decreasing too, with luck i wil be operated soon. As you said i would love to see a video about how chemo works, a know a bit due to my degree but i would love to see how they explain it. To end all i can say is be strong and keep fighting friend. we both can do this, and remember, a great portion of this battle take place in our mind. Good luck. P.S. Sorry for the broken english
Watching this video makes me feel appreciated for the intelligence that created my body with such care and dilligence! And also feel appreciation for those cells who are fighting battles every day! I salute you little ones.
Evolution and microbiology are pretty nuts, yeah.
Covering cancer is such a big deal because everyone knows someone who is or was affected by it. My grandmother in law is currently fighting lung cancer for the 3rd time and her body rejected her chemo last week. She is also doing immunotherapy. Irs been incredibly hard but we still have hope!❤
Edit: thanks for the likes and kind words! I hope humanity can kick cancer's ass!
I wish your grandmother, to get rid of the cancer!
Everyone knows someone who is or was affected by it. Strangely though... I don't. I know a couple of people with rare conditions that are no less horrible though. :(
I hope your grandmother can beat it!
My classmates had a classmate that died to cancer before i arrived. Rest in peace luana 😔
One of my favorite RUclipsrs died to cancer a little less than a year ago 😔 so even is someone may not know someone personally effected by it lots of people know just because someone they idolize got it.
My cat, Isabelle, was diagnosed with cancer today. Doc gives her about two months to live. Thank you for helping me understand what that means.
Sorry
I study land management and planning, and I've also got an interest in biology and how the body functions. The analogy and metaphors used to break this down was so well done
Who knew our bodies were waging epic wars against tiny invaders every day? This video turns complex science into a thrilling battle story!
My father was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer in October of last year. Thanks to immune therapy he has a fighting chance at living a few more good years as the tumors in his lungs are pretty much gone or dead and the main one in his kidney is arrested. This cancer doesn't respond to chemotherapy, and if it weren't for such rapidly evolving immune therapies he likely wouldn't even be here today. Great video, it really broke everything down so simply, especially for people in these horrible situations that can only sit and wonder how this could even happen.
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S e x dreams aren’t dreams
He should drink more. Meals with hi in garlic and herds.
Sir Lucifer The Great
Big shout-out to the artists and the animators involved in this video. The concept, the illustrations, the compositions, the colours. All of it is so cinematic. The best content I've watched this week.
I was an organ donor to donate a part of my liver to the recipient after they contracted stage 4 cancer. Its good to know that you're covering more about cancer and spreading the awareness of it!
Neat video, three time survivor here. You forgot the main reason cancer occurs, apoptosis or preprogrammed cell death. When every cell is born it says “in three days and two hours I expire” the cell destroys itself by destroying its cell wall, when its time is up. You get that one defunct cell that says “I DON’T want to die” and instead of death it survives, and replicates another cell like it that doesn’t want to die, and so on.
If you by the book (I’ve read it, it’s a great oversimplification of the immune system)
It details the 3 main cancer genes
Like the first one (obviously)
The disabling of tumour suppression
Then comes
Deactivating apoptosis
Then oncogenes which greatly accelerate cell replication
You are very lucky to be a 3x survivor, I hope you life your extra chances to the best you can
It does mention that briefly at 0:40.
What a great video, after watching this my immune cells have learnt how to defeat cancer more effectively. They now feel motivated because you have showed the world their heroic acts. Thank you.
i’m too stupid for this video
Yes people should be more grateful their bodies, they are always working so hard to keep us breathing etc.
Most people treat this shell like total garbage.... it's beyond sad, but I know it isnt easy to eat well and exercise.
But cigarettew, alcohol, drugs etc.... not an excuse.
People are monsters.
@@FocusedFighter777 Agreed 💪
@@FocusedFighter777 i agree with the whole drugs etc are stupid but you know that you are talking about other peoples bodies?
They are the body so they themselves are fighting for themselves and i think that because they are doing it to themselves that people can't really be seen as "monsters" just because they are unhealthy. Just not responsible.
@@FocusedFighter777 this mf... just labelled addicts worldwide as monsters cus he feels bad for their "shells"
I just wanted to comment that I appreciate these videos as just this weekend my father was diagnosed with cancer. We wont know the severity until Monday and frankly I'm afraid but knowing more about cancer has helped eased the pain and anxiety. I never got along with my father but I've always respected him and I pray it's treatable and if not that he can live as comfortable as possible before the day comes. He's the first person I've ever known to get cancer and I hope everything works for the best. I have faith in science and as a believer I have faith no matter the outcome.
So sorry to read this. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer last week.
@@owen9510 Sorry to hear that man. I hope your doing well.
My mom is currently going through immunotherapy, and while the cancer isn't gone yet, she hasn't been on it that long and already the cancer has shrunk nearly 50%. Hoping and praying it removes the cancer completely. Given enough time, humanity will eventually solve all our problems, so even if we don't have the solutions now, I'm sure we will someday.
thank you guys for making videos like this one i have malignant lymphoma and you guys have really helped me understand what it happening inside my body
Losing my mom to cancer, it's always been one of the scary things to look into for me but this made it so much easier! Can't thank y'all enough
Sorry to hear that 😢
There is always a chance, even if it is one in a million. I hope you'll be this lucky one.
@@helenkeller9182 yeah it's always a scary thought. I always try to be healthy and avoid it but it's always something that can just pop up and ruin your life...
The attention to detail in your videos is truly out of this world. When you talked about cutting off supplies and cancer cells learning to live with fewer resources, one of the cells appeared to hold its breath! What you do is absolutely amazing. Every single one of you, I have absolutely no doubt, will have already or will save lives because you'll have inspired our next doctors, nurses, researchers and so on. I would encourage you all to smile at the world and feel rightfully proud of what you've accomplished with Kurzgesagt.
Several years ago, a family friend of ours was suffering from stage four breast cancer. She fully believed her kid was going to grow up without her.
One course of immunotherapy later, and the cancer vanished completely. She's been in remission ever since.
That’s great to hear, the future of cancer treatment is looking bright (:
Great news but i imagine that must’ve been pretty expensive
@@Canaldeyt254 idk im not sure how that would work but I would assume that it would be expensive
Which kind of immunotherapy ?
Wow
Dude, I abosutely love how you guys explain things. The viuals are insanely well done!
As a cancer survivor I can say this is such a unique video keep up the good work
I didn't have a tumor, so my cancer was a little different but when I had leukemia (APL), I often visualized my rouge multiplying promyelocytes cells getting nuked by my chemo. I envisioned the chemo as a sentient sword like Nightblood, wanting to destroying evil. 🤣 In my imagination there were also a lot of cells animated like knights on horseback and duels to the death. But this animation is also pretty awesome! 👾
In the grim darkness of the lymphatic system, there is only war.
would chemo be like carpet bombing? destroys the sloppy fast expanding buildings of Tumor town but also destroying everything else slightly as well?
DESTROY!! EVIL!!!!!
(and just like nightblood, chemo doesn't have a very good idea of what evil is...)
Are you still alive?
@@nirbhaykumarchaubey8777no, he died in the two hours between his comment and your reply
It’s so amazing yet terrifying how your own body can be your worst enemy
At the end of the day, we're colonies of living cells that are heavily regulated. But cancer is more or less just life finding a way.
😢
Heck fam why did I watch this
It's not your body doing it to you. It's the food you eat and all the chemicals you consume through processed drinks/tap water.
@M I don't think a channel that promotes science and facts is a good fit for you. I'm sure there are some nice crystal healing videos you can watch elsewhere.
7:20 who animated this part? 😂 not the building inspector duffing his hat at the tumor cell 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I shouldn’t be laughing but damn that’s funny
Donated to a cancer research charity after this. Thanks for your great work spreading awareness
Radiation therapy specialist and a long time Kurzgesagt fan here. I'm happy to see some more informational videos on cancer. A very interesting, yet horrible type of disease. I promise you all, we are doing our very best.
Would love to see some more videos on treatment options.
AisyzghJOsoooOOooOOOJ OH MY LEG
Just paused the video to say thank you to all the Doctors and Researchers to completely eliminate cancers. My wife is currently fighting stage 4 but i know she will prevail. 💪💪
Keep us updated if you can
@@Shadow-gm9ct will do, just got a successful surgery and waiting for biopsy results. We will be doing chemo after 💪
Stay strong! May God be with you! 🙏
brother can you tell me which type of cancer is she having?
@@shubhsandhu5781 colon cancer
i am working in an atomic pathology lab and every day comes so many cases with all sort of cancers. clinical stories when people overcome cancer 10-20 years ago gives me so much hope. i am cheerful for everyone who is fighting it now, you are heroes for all humanity!
Cancer researcher here too. Amazing video and very accurate in understanding. Love the focus on evolution which is such an important part of tumor development that is often overlooked.
Some additional points:
Cancer drugs may also select the most resistant cells in the same ways as the immune activity does, leaving the most resistant cells to overtake the tumor population. This is why treatments often end with resistance and why multiple different drugs often are used at the same time.
The part of cancer that kills patients in the vast majority of cases is the spread of the first tumor, allowing it to form secondary tumors in other parts of the body. While therapy targeting the first tumor has been investigated for many decades, it has only recently become a focus to develop treatments specifically against the spread of cancer (even though this is the most lethal feature).
From my perspective, I can't help but feel like there is still too big a focus on the development therapies trying the make the primary tumor smaller (this is one of the primary values used to evaluate drug effectiveness), as a smaller tumor doesn't necessarily mean a less lethal one. Developing treatments that reduce the spread of the tumor has such potential to increase patient survival, but it has gotten so little focus in comparison.
Thanks for your good work.
Thanks for your work too! Because of people like you our world prospers
I really appreciate the work your team does Kurzgesagt by spreading awareness.
I lost my mum a month ago to sarcoma and this video brought me to tears.
Thank you
i'm sorry for your lost 😥
What's so scary is that cancer sometimes builds dark big cities without the "rest of the world" noticing. Then, suddenly, the city is so huge and influential that it pulls the "whole country" into the abyss.
Florida ?
why does this sound familiar....
@@sephypantsu SF?
The mafia
Capitalism.
Love the “order 66” touch, from a die hard Star Wars fan. But in all seriousness, this was a great informative video of something I did not fully comprehend before. Thanks!
This might be among the best Kurzgesagt videos ever in terms of everything including animation, concept, explanation, etc. in my opinion. One of their masterpieces.
As a person with autism, It's quite hard for a person like me to understand this subject in things like school. But i can learn everything about the subject with the visuals. Thank you, Kurzgesagt.
Same
Same
Same here
Me too, i always learned better using visuals and stuff like that
Im not sure yet if i have it but things explained the way this youtube chanel explains it i understand it more and its more interesting
My mother passed away of pancreatic cancer on the 18th, I wish so deeply for us to have found a way to eliminate this terrible illness from the world. Thank you for the genuine informative video, and the hopeful outlook for the future.
Im sorry for your loss
@@1Stormrider1 thank you, I'm trying to be at peace with the fact she is no longer suffering.
Sorry for your loss :(
Stay strong
im so sorry, i lost my mom last week too bcs of rectal cancer, how do you cope with it? is it getting easier overtime?
Sorry. It does not. It's been almost a year since I lost my father to pancreatic cancer. It feels like it was yesterday.
You get used to the feeling of missing them... But you never get over it
@@whatzitooyaa1599
I looove how pretty and easy to understand these videos are!! The personnified cells are soo cute
Choosing a metaphor for explaining a complex phenomena in detail is such an effective way of sharing scientific concepts. Also not easy to do! Great video.
This video is not only entertaining and easy to understand, it teaches you more than you could learn in school, just within 10 minutes... Great one!
You learn more in school but this is a good way to do it online
Its incredible how far this channel has grown. 10 years and hopefully many more to go
Wow Thank you for the new knowledge. I thought our bodies gave up on cancer cells from the beginning. But in fact, our body fights against it before it lose. Hope we can find curable methods for cancer in the future.
I'm 19, just graduated and a few months ago they found multiple very large tumors in my mother, in very sensitive area's. At the 21st of June we'll recieve the final results of a very long scan she had a few days ago. I always kinda knew what cancer was, but not this much. I'm happy but also sad after watching this video, but I'm mostly thankful to Kurzgesagt for giving me the opportunity to understand what my mother probably has, this channel always teaches me something knew.
I hope the results will be great, allowing me to return to this video in a few days with hopefully to knowledge I can still have a mother in the future.
Hey, I wish you, your mother, and your family the best of luck on the results and her health!
@sidthegamekid - All my empathy goes out to people suffering through cancer as well as their loved ones. My fingers are crossed for your mother.
❤ brother.
Lost my mom to cancer in 2005 which lead me down a very long and winding path to the depressed person I am today. Seeing the utopian picture at the end of the video depicting a world free of cancer really brought a tear to my eye. Thank you to everybody trying to defeat this evil.
Love you man 🫂❤️
I lost mine in 2007 for the same reason and I am depressed as well. I really hope technology will do us a favour and let us see the cure for cancer in our lifetime hopefully.
@@cricetomannaro000 much love brother, stay strong- it is our burden to bear
@@WhitefoxSpaceSorry for your loss. I hope you realize there are so many better things to do to make your mom proud of you even if she is dead... And i hope you recover from Depression.
Much love man ❤
@@riwagun3165 thank you friend
My grandma was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in april and sadly passed away last month.
Crazy how late you can notice something so destructive happening to you, but nice to now know what's happening inside your body once you have cancer.
Hope you all take good care of yourself, and keep a strong relationship with the people that are important to you!