And a year after that treatment, his tumor grew back with a vengeance.

And then the second group received only Tumor Treating Field therapy.

3. Oncology early diagnosis and treatment

C. Oncology early diagnosis and treatment

We also believe that Tumor Treating Fields will work with radiation and interrupt the self repair mechanisms that we have.

Early detection and treatment of oncological diseases, with emphasis on breast cancer

What we saw in that trial is that that the life expectancies of both groups so the chemotherapy treated group and the Tumor Treating Field group was the same.

And I firmly believe that in the next 10 years Tumor Treating Fields will be a weapon available to doctors and patients for all of these most difficult to treat solid tumors.

In spite of medical treatment, she reportedly died of brain oedema on 24 May.

But importantly, the Tumor Treating Field group suffered none of the side effects typical of chemotherapy patients.

Now importantly, these Tumor Treating Fields have no effect on normal undividing cells.

Importantly, it was the first time ever that the FDA included in their approval of an oncology treatment a quality of life claim.

I'm very thankful to Jay and to Mark and the TEDMED team for inviting me today to describe a fourth tool, a new tool, that we call Tumor Treating Fields.

To understand how Tumor Treating Fields work, we first need to understand what are electric fields.

These are Robert's MRIs, again, under only TTField treatment.

Based on this trial, in April of this year, the FDA approved Tumor Treating Fields for the treatment of patients with recurrent GBM.

And can we utilize can we take this property, this compound, this receptor, whatever it is that's controlling these anti tumor properties and apply it to cancer therapy in general?

Stomach tumour

And so what this is, is we're taking a cross section of her body here, and you can see in the middle there is her heart, and to the side of her heart on the left there is this large tumor that will invade and will kill her, untreated, in a matter of weeks.

You can see the Tumor Treating Field field generator, but importantly you can also see that she is living her life.

These tumors inevitably grow into larger tumors, such as these ones here.

Tumoral diseases

But for other tumors and cancer types, the improvements have only been modest.

Purchase of radiological apparatus and cytostatic medicines for local centres, with the aim of improving access to treatment for tumoral diseases

But inevitably, these tumors progress towards being enormous, ulcerating tumors like this one here.

We can light up tumors like this kidney tumor, so that you can exactly see where the boundary is between the kidney tumor and the kidney you want to leave behind, or the liver tumor and the liver you want to leave behind.

So, we put tumors and now we have over 100 tumors on our array.

And once those vessels invade the cancer, it can expand, it can invade local tissues.

In cancer, cells rapidly divide and lead to uncontrolled tumor growth.

Inherited Malignancy

It is possible that highly metastasized breast tumors might have acquired additional genetic changes causing resistance to treatment with PARP inhibitors. Therefore, we suggest that PARP inhibitors might be more useful in the prophylactic treatment of women carrying the gene responsible for this form of inherited breast cancer.

Her cancer continued to grow.

So here's a tumor.

The one with the wart on her?

Four or five opportunities to see the breast masses, touch the breast mass, intervene at a much earlier stage than when we saw her.

But when sentinel lymph node came into our treatment protocol, the surgeon basically looks for the single node that is the first draining lymph node of the cancer.

It invaded into his lungs.

Can you tell where the tumor is?

He had a tubercular hip.

Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is.

So these are patients who had received surgery, high dose radiation to the head and first line chemotherapy, and that had failed and their tumors had grown back.

But this technology could not find tumors when they're small, and finding a small tumor is critical for survival.

We've applied Tumor Treating Fields to over 20 different cancers in the lab, and we see this effect in all of them.

There's one in the skull, and then just for good measure, I had these other tumors including, by the time my treatment started, one was growing out of my tongue.

There's still cancer in your patient.