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
3:15 More people migrating to cities
3:40 Ten most common cancers and the deadliest ones
4:40 Polio virus and a brain tumor
5:40 Remove barriers to clinical use
6:40 Get viruses to destroy cancer cells
7:41 If a mutant gene is targeted
8:40 Also true in immunotherapy
9:24 End