Novel Cancer Treatments

As a rapper, Bishop Brigante was no stranger to on-stage battles. We met up with the then-45-year-old when he was battling Stage 4 colon cancer, which he said was caught too late. Bishop wanted Canadians to have easier access to colonoscopies and said advocacy had given him newfo ... Show More

Many women report difficulties with orgasms, low libido or pain around intercourse. And given that many have never even learned much about their genitals, they don’t always know where to get help. A cadre of Canadian doctors specializing in women’s sexual health is trying to chan ... Show More

Attracting a family doctor to work in a community is challenging, with fewer physicians choosing family medicine. That's why Cheryl Gnyp, the recruiter for Castlegar, B.C., needs to stand out. She uses the board game Operation and specialized coffee as part of her 10-minute sales ... Show More

mit Dr. med. Valentin Meissner, Urologe Die Patienten der Studie waren vor rund 20 Jahren an einem lokal begrenzten Prostatakarzinom erkrankt, und bei allen fiel die Therapieentscheidung zur radikalen Prostatektomie. Diese kann, wie fast jede Behandlung, mit unerwünschten Nebenwi ... Show More

Rediffusion Plusieurs millénaires avant notre ère, la médecine égyptienne était déjà élaborée. Les chercheurs ont en effet à leur disposition de nombreux papyrus, qui détaillent les pratiques médicales des praticiens égyptiens.On sait ainsi qu'ils savaient poser des prothèses ou ... Show More

Some of the most complex medicines available today are made from living cells or organisms - these treatments are called bio-pharmaceuticals and in this episode of The Life Scientific Dr Bahija Jallal, CEO of Immunocore, shares her story of leaving her home in Casablanca, Morocco ... Show More

Recently, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a first-of-its-kind cancer therapy to treat aggresive forms of skin cancer. It has us thinking of the long history of cancer. One of the first recorded mentions of cancer appears in an ancient Egyptian text from around 3000 B ... Show More

A young woman is referred urgently to your breast surgical oncology clinic for a second opinion. She has been told that she needs to have an urgent mastectomy for a palpable triple negative breast cancer with suspicious axillary lymphadenopathy. Are there other options she should ... Show More

The toxic mineral asbestos is still mined across the world, despite it’s much documented links to cancer. Now there are promising results from a new global study into one of the most aggressive types of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Also on the programme, we receive an e ... Show More

For people with endometriosis—a mysterious disease where endometrial tissue grows outside of the uterus—medical visits can be especially frustrating. It takes some patients years (on average, ten years) to get a diagnosis and treatment options are limited. There are currently no ... Show More

Last month, Catherine, Princess of Wales shared she’d been diagnosed with cancer. Describing this news as ‘a huge shock’ and at age just 42, the Princess’ disease falls into a category known as “early-onset cancer” – when the disease affects those under 50. While cases in this ag ... Show More

Carl June is the pioneer behind CAR T-cell therapy: a groundbreaking cancer treatment that supercharges part of a patient's own immune system to attack and kill tumors. In a talk about a breakthrough, he shares how three decades of research culminated in a therapy that's eradicat ... Show More

Every medical decision—whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery—is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation (Basic Book, 2021), physician Paul A. Offit arg ... Show More