That Cancer Conversation
32 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFrom chemotherapy appointments to artificial intelligence, we explore the stories from the people affected by cancer and find out about the cutting-edge research unravelling its mysteries.
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Longer, better lives: Ep.4 Can government policies prevent cancer?
June 10, 2024 11:26 - 18 minutes - 26 MBIn the UK 4 in 10 cancer cases are preventable. But what can the government do to stop those 4 out of every 10 cancers before they even start? Welcome to the fourth episode of our mini-series, That Cancer Conversation Longer, better lives. In this episode, Sophie sits with Alizee Froguel who works on prevention policy here at Cancer Research UK. They discuss what’s causing most of these preventable cancers, the announcement of the general election and what's next for achieving a smokefr...
One to one with Rhian: Volunteering Special Part 2
June 03, 2024 08:00 - 9 minutes - 13.2 MBWelcome back to another episode of That Cancer Conversation! We’re kicking off Volunteers’ Week 2024 with the second of our special episodes celebrating our inspiring volunteers. Last time, we chatted to Penny, one of our campaigns ambassadors. This week, we’re moving into the world of events with Rhian. Rhian has been volunteering at Race for Life and Pretty Muddy events across London since 2021. She was inspired to get involved after her own diagnosis of ovarian cancer. If you're l...
One to one with Penny: Volunteering Special Part 1
May 24, 2024 13:08 - 16 minutes - 23 MBWelcome back to another episode of That Cancer Conversation! Here at Cancer Research UK, we’re grateful to benefit from the support of more than 25,000 incredible volunteers, who donate their time to help us beat cancer. So, in the lead up to Volunteers’ Week on the 3rd of June, we want to say a huge thank you to our brilliant community of volunteers, whose support makes our life-saving research possible. To celebrate their stories, we’re diving into the world of volunteering across...
Longer, better lives: Ep.3 Why is there a £1 billion research funding gap?
May 21, 2024 08:46 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MBYou can’t beat cancer without scientists. Without research the progress we've made in beating cancer wouldn’t be where it is today. But that progress is at risk of stalling. To keep up and to plug the funding gap, we would need to find an additional £1 billion pounds over the next decade. In this episode, Sophie sits down with Owen Jackson, head of policy at Cancer Research UK to understand what challenges scientists in the UK are currently facing and what the UK Government needs to do...
One to one with Dr Anisha Patel
April 30, 2024 13:03 - 22 minutes - 30.7 MBWelcome to another episode of That Cancer Conversation! While bowel cancer is relatively rare for people in their 30s and 40s to get bowel cancer, cases are rising. At 39 years old Dr Anisha Patel (@doctorsgetcancertoo), a practicing GP, was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer. Now, 6 years on, Anisha is dedicated to raising awareness of cancer, especially in adults under 50. In this episode we talk to Anisha discussing her diagnosis, her book and helping the Cancer Grand Challenges t...
One to one with Shaumya
April 26, 2024 16:46 - 20 minutes - 28.4 MBWelcome to another episode of That Cancer Conversation! April is Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month, where charities and the young people we support come together to raise awareness of the unique challenges of having cancer during some of the most intense years of your life. In this episode Sophie speaks to Shaumya, who was 18 years old and getting ready to go to medical school when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma, right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. S...
Shaumya's story
April 26, 2024 16:46 - 20 minutes - 28.4 MBWelcome to another episode of That Cancer Conversation! April is Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month, where charities and the young people we support come together to raise awareness of the unique challenges of having cancer during some of the most intense years of your life. In this episode Sophie speaks to Shaumya, who was 18 years old and getting ready to go to medical school when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma, right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. S...
Longer, better lives: Ep.2 Why did a doctor have to wait for cancer treatment?
April 02, 2024 13:00 - 16 minutes - 22.8 MBWe’re back with another episode of our subseries, Longer, better lives! This series unpacks our recently published manifesto, Longer, Better Lives: A Manifesto for Cancer Research and Care. You might recognise our next guest, as she was part of our ‘Together We Are Beating Cancer’ campaign featuring on a TV advert as well as billboards and posters on display across the UK, during September. Dr Mei-Ling Lancashire is a GP who was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer 2 years ag...
What's causing the cancer care gap?
February 26, 2024 11:06 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBWe’ve made huge progress on cancer in the last 50 years. But not all of it has been felt equally. People’s experience of the healthcare system, and ultimately how likely they are to be successfully diagnosed and treated, varies massively. These are known as health inequalities and can be caused by a range of factors. In this episode of That Cancer Conversation, we’re exploring how deprivation impacts cancer inequalities and what we can do to narrow the gap. We speak to Cancer Research ...
Longer, better lives: Ep.1 What is Cancer Research UK's manifesto?
January 29, 2024 10:46 - 13 minutes - 71.5 MBWelcome to another episode of That Cancer Conversation! We’re launching a new subseries which unpacks our recently published manifesto, Longer, Better Lives: A Manifesto for Cancer Research and Care. At Cancer Research UK, we know that huge strides have been made in beating cancer – with survival in the UK doubling over the last 50 years. But this hard-won progress is at risk of stalling. The cancer crisis is urgent. Every day, people affected by cancer face anxious waits for tests ...
The world of clinical trials
November 27, 2023 15:05 - 39 minutes - 403 MBClinical trials are a vital step in the development of new medicines of any kind, and that includes new cancer treatments. They aim to find out whether new treatments are safe and effective and work better than current treatments. In this episode of That Cancer Conversation, we're going to take you into the world of clinical research and walk you through the pathway, from how we design trials in the first place, right through to taking part, to give you the full picture of what a clinical ...
How does cancer affect a family?
September 22, 2023 09:31 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBOur latest podcast is about how families cope with cancer, and the scientific progress helping them through. Austin was diagnosed with a type of blood cancer called acute lymphoblastic leukaemia when he was 2 years old. In 2016, scientists took some cells from Austin’s immune system. Dr Sara Ghorashian, from the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, changed them so they could recognise cancer cells as a threat. Then they were put back into Austin’s body. Since then, Austin has b...
One to One - with Dr Laura Danielson
September 01, 2023 08:30 - 15 minutes - 21.8 MBIn our new podcast series, That Cancer Conversation: One to One, we’re talking to the people who make Cancer Research UK what it is. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and in this first episode we’re hearing from Dr Laura Danielson, our research lead for children’s and young people’s cancer. Laura moved across the Atlantic to make sure her work had the best chance of helping patients. And, since arriving in the UK, she’s gone from testing a neuroblastoma treatment as one of o...
One to one with Dr Laura Danielson
September 01, 2023 08:30 - 15 minutes - 21.8 MBIn our new podcast series, That Cancer Conversation: One to One, we’re talking to the people who make Cancer Research UK what it is. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and in this first episode we’re hearing from Dr Laura Danielson, our research lead for children’s and young people’s cancer. Laura moved across the Atlantic to make sure her work had the best chance of helping patients. And, since arriving in the UK, she’s gone from testing a neuroblastoma treatment as one of o...
How can we improve LGBTQ+ cancer care?
June 27, 2023 10:09 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBBeating cancer means beating it for everyone. And crucial to doing that is tackling health inequalities, unfair and avoidable differences in health across the population and between different groups within society. In this episode, we're diving into the inequalities faced by one group in particular, the LGBTQ+ community, and what we can do to make cancer care more inclusive for everyone. To get some insight into the inequalities in cancer care in the LGBTQ+ community and what needs to ...
Could food improve cancer treatment?
May 30, 2023 10:02 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBWhen thinking about cancer treatment, our first thoughts may be about surgery or chemotherapy. But what about what we eat? In this episode, we hear from Dr Clare Shaw, a lead cancer dietician and therapy researcher who has written multiple books with the Royal Marsden Hospital, including The Cancer Cookbook. And Professor Karen Vousden, co-founder of Faeth Therapeutics, a company looking at how diets could help beat cancer. From taste changes to the keto diet, we sit down with our know...
Sex, intimacy and cancer
April 28, 2023 12:33 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBKicking off the second season of That Cancer Conversation, we talk about sex, intimacy and cancer. From chemotherapy to sex shops, we sit down with three amazing guests to discuss sexual wellbeing for those living with and beyond cancer. Cancer nurse and psychosexual therapist, Dr Isabel White speaks about the various ways cancer can impact our sexual wellbeing and shares some tips on how to have conversations about sex with health professionals. Sex with Cancer co-founder, Brian Lobe...
That Cancer Conversation is back!
April 19, 2023 11:19 - 1 minute - 2.56 MBThat Cancer Conversation is back for season 2! Join our digital news team, Amy, Jacob, Sophie, and Tim, as they bring together the stories and the science behind cancer every month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Why haven't we cured cancer?
June 14, 2022 08:01 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MBCancer has inhabited earth for longer than humans have, but we don’t have a one-fits-all, silver-bullet cure. From Egyptian mummies and medieval wolves, to precision medicine and microscopic evolution, we take a look at the past to find out why curing cancer is more complex than we think, and what is needed next to get us closer to a future without cancer. In this latest episode of That Cancer Conversation, we hear from Dr Alanna Skuse, Dr Mariam Jamal-Hanjani and Sir Leszek Borysiewicz...
The vaccination of a generation
December 09, 2021 03:00 - 18 minutes - 15.2 MBLast year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced an ambitious plan: to create a ‘cervical cancer-free future’. The potential reward is huge. If we succeed, cervical cancer will become the first cancer to be ‘eliminated’ on this scale. Globally, cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women - 99% of cases worldwide are caused by a few high-risk strains of a common virus called human papillomavirus and in many countries around the world, people are given a vaccine to preve...
Black in Cancer
October 08, 2021 01:00 - 22 minutes - 18.2 MBThis episode, we're joined by Sigourney Bell, a researcher at the University of Cambridge, whose work looks to find new treatments for supratentorial ependymoma, a rare children's brain cancer. Outside of the lab, Sigourney is the co-founder of Black in Cancer, a global organisation that aims to strengthen the network between Black people in the cancer space whilst highlighting Black excellence in cancer research and medicine. During Black History Month, Black in Cancer runs a week of even...
Can we grow the treatments of tomorrow?
September 02, 2021 01:46 - 32 minutes - 26.4 MBFrom malaria to multiple sclerosis, plants have given us compounds which help treat countless conditions. But could a tree growing on your street hold the next life-changing drug? From Madagascar to a Kew Gardens in London, we explore how scientists across the globe use indigenous knowledge and pharmaceutical science to help develop the treatments of tomorrow. And in a world-first, a cannabis-derived drug, known as Sativex, is being trialled in combination with chemotherapy to see if it co...
Will cancer make me infertile?
May 12, 2021 00:10 - 37 minutes - 26.3 MBFor the first episode of That Cancer Conversation, we explore infertility and cancer. From teenage body worries to an intercontinental surrogacy story, we chat to Max, Kreena and Eleanor – 3 people whose cancer journeys affected their fertility in some way. Is freezing sperm and egg cells the only option? Not necessarily. We sit down with Professor Richard Anderson, deputy director of the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Reproductive Health, to explore options that are available and w...
Welcome to That Cancer Conversation
April 30, 2021 12:04 - 1 minute - 981 KBJoin our new podcast, That Cancer Conversation, where we explore some of the most fascinating personal stories and cutting-edge innovations that you probably didn’t know about a disease that most people don't want to talk about. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What Is Cancer And How Does It Start?
March 29, 2021 12:40 - 2.48 MBWhat Is Cancer And How Does It Start? by Cancer Research UK See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
90 NCRI Cancer Conference reports, communicating risks, and a lifetime of research
November 07, 2014 14:33 - 25.2 MBWe’re reporting back from the 10th NCRI cancer conference, with a look at communicating cancer risks and a lifetime in research for scientist Ron Laskey.
89 Early diagnosis, NHS under pressure, skirt sizes, and progress in bowel cancer
October 06, 2014 10:36 - 17.3 MBWe look at the challenges of late diagnosis in an NHS stretched to breaking point, chase the evidence on skirt size and cancer risk, and hear a personal story of progress.
88 Aspirin, obesity, NICE and focusing on pancreatic cancer
August 26, 2014 14:57 - 21.5 MBWe look at aspirin for cancer prevention, obesity and cancer risk, why NICE turned down new breast and prostate cancer drugs, and focus on how to make progress in pancreatic cancer.
87 The pill and cancer risk, sensitising tumours, and physicists fighting cancer
August 04, 2014 16:15 - 21.8 MBHow the pill affects cancer risk, making tumours more sensitive to treatment, and fighting cancer with physics.
86 Summer sun, anal cancer and teens on trials
July 08, 2014 12:28 - 16.1 MBHow to stay safe in the summer sun, the shocking anal cancer statistics nobody wants to talk about, and why we need more teens on trials.
85 Deprivation, Wikipedia, pancreatic cancer and immunotherapy
June 05, 2014 15:33 - 21.9 MBHow deprivation is linked to 19,000 cancer deaths a year, why Wikipedia falls short and how we’re improving it, plus pancreatic cancer and immunotherapy.
84 Personalised lung cancer treatment, skin cancer, and our new strategy
May 12, 2014 11:19 - 19 MBWe hear about a groundbreaking new clinical trial for lung cancer, rising skin cancer rates, and our new 5-year research strategy.