Category: Cancer
Brain Matters – July 2016
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This month Michael Lim, MD, talks about using viruses and other aspects of immunotherapy for brain tumors. Program notes: 0:22 Polio virus and brain tumor treatment 1:21 Genetically modify viruses to attack tumors 2:21 Implanted melanoma tumors 3:22 Myeloid cells …
PodMed – Week of July 11, 2016
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This week’s topics include euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, a new model for breast cancer trials, biomarkers, and S.aureus in families. Program notes: 0:31 A new approach to breast cancer studies 1:31 Stage 2 or 3 breast cancer 2:29 Looking …
July 15, 2016 – Cancer Docs Speak
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Anchor lead: Why are cancer doctors advocating for a vaccine? Elizabeth Tracey reports Almost all teenagers should be getting vaccinated against human papilloma virus, or HPV, but fewer than half are, national data reveal. Cancer doctors all over the nation …
July 1, 2016 – New Directions
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Anchor lead: Will an integrated approach to bladder cancer help reduce deaths from the disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports For the first time in three decades a new treatment has received FDA approval for bladder cancer. Stephanie Cooper Greenberg, and her …
June 30, 2016 – Bladder Cancer Center
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Anchor lead: Bladder cancer is finally getting much needed attention, Elizabeth Tracey reports Bladder cancer sometimes gets lost among the other, more common cancers such as prostate or breast, but that’s poised to change with the establishment of the Greenberg …
June 2016 – Cancer News Review
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In this month's Cancer News Review, Kimmel Cancer Center director Bill Nelson discusses various environmental risks for cancer and an immunotherapy strategy using polio. Program notes: 0:24 Exercise and cancer risk 1:21 Melanoma increased risk 2:15 Air pollution and cancer …