July 11, 2016 – Cancer News Review

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Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Director William Nelson discusses changes to physical exams, the HPV vaccine, new information regarding breast cancers in this month's podcast.

Program notes:

0:20 Changes to physical exam?
1:20 An app loaded onto a smartphone
2:21 The right kind of devices
3:03 The HPV vaccine
4:02 Need three injections
5:05 If pediatricians are the problem
5:40 Holy grail with regard to some breast cancers?
6:41 Found progenitor cells that had the receptor
7:42 Treated a few women with drug
8:42 May have similar mechanisms of action
9:44 End