I didn't fully understand everything that Dr. Tomasetti talked about. I was unfamiliar with some of the math that he talked about, so probably the most difficult part of the talk was just when he was going over some of the formulas he derived.
I really enjoyed Dr. Tomasetti's presentation. I've been interested in cancer research for a long time, and I would definitely like to go into mathematical biology to have a chance to do the kind of work that Dr. Tomasetti does. It was very fascinating to learn of the correlation between the age of cancer patients upon diagnosis and the number of pre-cancer phase mutations in those same patients. I would definitely be interested in learning more about what researchers are doing to find ways to differentiate between which mutations lead to proliferation of passengers and which lead to proliferation of drivers.
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