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Cancer - 101
Season 1 · Episode 44

Cancer - 101

Saving Lives In Slow Motion · Dr Ayan Panja

December 2, 202216m 59s

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Show Notes

TW: Today’s episode is on cancer which will affect one in two people.


I look at the different types, the variables that cause it, whether there are ways of preventing cancer and also why some cancers are common and others not. 


Links:


How cancer starts: https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/cell-division-and-cancer-14046590/


Why are cancers on the rise?: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/researchers-report-dramatic-rise-in-early-onset-cancers/


The commonest cancers: https://www.healthline.com/health/most-common-cancers


Viruses and cancer: https://www.cancer.org/healthy/cancer-causes/infectious-agents/infections-that-can-lead-to-cancer/viruses.html 



David Servan-Schreiber, the author of *anti-cancer* (survived over 20 years after being given 3 months to live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VNjuBgHIAw



RAS genes and signalling: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2019.00965/full



Dr Carl June and CAR T cell therapy: https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2022/november/car-t-cell-therapy-reaches-beyond-cancer



Macmillan Cancer Support: https://www.macmillan.org.uk/

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