The Cancer Moonshot is a Ghostly Galleon

Deepti Pradhan
6 min readMar 27, 2022

Aiming high is indeed laudable, but what about making existing resources available to all who need them?

The Big C looks down upon the galleon

She’d been diagnosed with non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) completely out of the blue. A routine post-tick bite evaluation revealed a spot on the lungs, and from that moment it was full steam ahead in determining what that spot was and then, addressing treating it with all the…

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Deepti Pradhan

Employed at Yale University, Deepti is primarily a scientist & patient advocate. She runs Tilde Cafe, a forum to make science accessible (www.tildecafe.org)