Know thy enemy If a loved one got a cancer diagnosis, it can be very very confusing. If you are anything like me, you have a lot of learning ahead of you. While your first port of call will be the oncologist, let me try and pen down what helped us assist the oncologist in controlling dad's stage 3+ cancer. Before that though, let us get a sense of what we are up against using the standard of care offered by medicine clinically. How many chemo cycles : math of cancer growth and chemo effectiveness Some of our good oncologists tell us that ever round of chemo kills a certain proportion of the remaining cancer in the body. The percentage for very hard chemo cycles is about 99% and that for softer ones can even be in the 60s of percent. So, if we start from about 10000000000000000 (17 digits) cancerous cells (about 10 grams of cancer) in the body when we detected the cancer, every chemo can at most take off two zeros from there because 1% of that number is 15 di...
As far back as school, I remember the large number of ideas popping up along with the frustration about why noone was working on them. I believe it was because the time had not yet come. This series is about ideas that I believe should be pursued because their time has either come or is about to come. I am putting these out there to specifically get critical feedback on those, get a sense of the worth of each of those and find other like minded people to build those together with. For the initiated... here is the familiar table to try put them in. The Business Model Canvas : Key Partners Key Activities Value Propositions Customer Relationships Customer Segments Key Resources Channels Cost Structure Revenue