Alan Townsend, dean of the University of Montana’s W. A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his daughter’s battle with an invasive tumor, then his wife’s devastating diagnosis, and how he used his training as a scientist to guide him through it all.
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Dylan Scott, a reporter for Vox’s Future Perfect, and science journalist Jyoti Madhusoodanan, join host Krys Boyd to discuss the reasons why cancer is hitting earlier and earlier, and the scientific breakthroughs using the body’s own immune system to combat it.
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Theresa Brown, an author and registered nurse, discusses her frustrations while being on the other side of treatments and her worries that speaking up would alienate the very doctors trying to save her.
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Jonathan Tjarks received a devastating cancer diagnosis and now considers the ways friends might be needed to help his young son and family in the event of his death.
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Suleika Jaouad joins us to talk about the cancer that left her fighting for life at a young age and how she’s reimagined what the future holds now that she’s cancer-free.
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Peter Waldman joins us to talk about how the FBI and NIH are quietly purging Chinese scientists at cancer research institutions, out of fear of China stealing intellectual property.
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Kim Horner talks about how she and other women make a drastic choice to fight a disease they don’t even have.
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Science journalist Robin Marantz Henig joins us to talk about a promising new option to treat cancer, which taps into the immune system’s T-cell supply to fight diseases.
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Dr. Lucy Kalanithi joins us to talk about her experience as her late husband, Paul Kalanithi documented his transition from rising neuroscientist to deteriorating cancer patient.
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This hour, Siddhartha Mukherjee takes us from Gregor Mendel’s 19th Century experiments with pea plants to current methods of gene editing with CRISPR/Cas9, which he writes about in his latest effort, “The Gene: An Intimate History.”
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This hour, we’ll learn how we can spot hereditary cancer with Dr. Theodora Ross, director of the Cancer Genetics Program at UT-Southwestern Medical Center.
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This hour, we’ll talk about current research into the HPV vaccine – and about how physicians talk to families about its benefits.
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