Making Sense with Sam Harris · 2026-07-14 · 81 min · 15,512 words

#485 — The New Science of Cancer

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I'm here with Siddhartha Mukherjee. Sid, it's great to see you again. Pleasure mine. So we have a lot to talk about. You have an updated version of your Pulture Prize winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies.

A biography of cancer, which uh came out fifteen years ago, but you've updated it and um I think there are four new chapters in in the in the new paper back, so I wanna focus on that. I wanna I wanna spend some time on on how our Thinking about cancer. uh has changed in the interim and I think we'll break this

into three chapters prevention, detection And you know, treatment slash cures But also you have an AI startup, which um I wanna talk about Because um The utility of AI here in at any one of these

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