Along these lines wouldn’t it be better to require ships to add some forward facing underwater radar to watch out for whale strikes? Or am I missing something here?
Radar is ineffective underwater because the radio waves are absorbed by the water. That is why there's no radar in use on submarines.
Sonar is not a valid solution here because it annoys the whales. Or at least high-power sonar, as used by the military, does. It would defeat the point.
Among many others:
- CAR T therapy going from lab to oncology suite (first launch 2017, but use rapidly growing)
- Approval of Keytruda and similar for many additional forms of cancer (see the 2021-2026 milestones here: https://www.drugs.com/history/keytruda.html )
- Liquid biopsy going from lab to PCP's office - starting with Grail Galleri and moving from there (yes, the NIH results were weak, but the idea of a liquid biopsy at all would be laughed off 10 years ago)
- Move of Atezolizumab and Tecentriq from infusion (hour) to injection (minutes) to increase availability
- Lower dose CT scanning for lung cancer, including for non-smokers
And a long line of immunotherapies that are making the leap from lab to chair right now.
The last 5 years have probably been the most exciting in cancer research since the launch of the monoclonal antibodies in the early 2010s. There is still incredibly far to go, but the trend is in the right direction: https://employercoverage.substack.com/p/decline-in-cancer-mo...