Category: Cancer
November 26, 2015 – Brain Tumor Monitoring
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Anchor lead: Can new techniques allow better monitoring of brain tumors? Elizabeth Tracey reports Transcript Elizabeth Tracey: All cells shed DNA into blood and bodily fluids when they break open, a fact that's being exploited in discerning whether cancers have …
PodMed – Week of November 23, 2015
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This week’s topics include health impact of coffee, measuring body temperature, germ line mutations and cancer in kids, and a treatment for respiratory syncytial virus. Program notes: 0:35 Coffee and health 1:31 Decrease in cardiovascular mortality 2:36 Way to measure …
November 13, 2015 – Cows and Cancer
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Anchor lead: Should you modify your meat eating habits based on WHO recommendations? Elizabeth Tracey reports Processed meat and to a lesser degree, red meat, are carcinogens, the WHO announced to a stunned world recently. Is there more to this …
November 9, 2015 – Cancer Avatar
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Anchor lead: Can human tumors grown in mice help determine cancer therapy? Elizabeth Tracey reports Mouse avatars, where a person’s tumor is grown in a mouse for the purpose of evaluating different potential therapies, has shown some promise in a …
October 13, 2015 – Cancer News Review
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Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Director William Nelson discusses top cancer news during October 2015. Program notes: 0:22 Low nicotine cigarette impact 1:25 Smoked less 2:27 Strategy to make less attractive 2:45 Cancer in elephants 3:45 Studies of lymphocytes too 4:30 …
PodMed – Week of November 2, 2015
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This week’s topics include diabetes and mortality, red meat and death, flavored tobacco, and mortality trends in the US. Program notes: 0:39 Processed meats and cancer risk 1:31 No randomized controlled trials 2:31 Carbon footprint with meat production? 3:36 Mortality …