Lai says that in the past, the basic premise in treating cancer was that you did everything you could to kill the cancerous cells. The current thinking, however, is that you don't necessarily have to kill the cells. Instead, you can use medication to turn malignant cells into benign ones.
他指出，過去我們治療癌症的原理，都是致力在殺死癌細胞；現代的觀念卻認為我們不一定要直接殺掉它們，可以用藥物誘導的方式，把它們從惡性變成良性。