3 Quotes by David Greenwald

Like we handle antibodies against foreign proteins and we only get viruses like measles and chicken pox once, you can form antibodies against hundreds of things on the cells, ... The future is going tobe the development of those targeted therapies so that we will evaluate cancer cells in a much different way. We will do enzyme profiles and protein profiles to come up with almost a blueprint of the cancer and pick and choose those things that are available.

So you pick out a small lesion in the lung and really focus on it, pinpoint the treatment as opposed to treating a larger area, ... It reduces toxicity and allows you to deliver a very high dose. That's basically where radiation is evolving.

The future of radiation tends to be what we call stereotactic: radiation, which focuses on the tumor and applies large doses at one time as opposed to traditional radiation which is small doses over a longer time, ... There is a gamma knife that's dedicated to treating brain lesions where, instead of radiating the brain in a three-week period, it's a one-time focused, high-powered type treatment.