Cancer Straight Talk Podcast

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Cancer Straight Talk Podcast from MSK
Cancer Straight Talk is a 2024 Gracie Award Winner for Best Educational Podcast and the prestigious Grand Award.

Cancer Straight Talk from Memorial Sloan Kettering is a podcast about cancer that brings together patients and experts, to have straightforward evidence-based conversations. Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Dr. Diane Reidy-Lagunes hosts this cancer podcast with a mission to educate and empower cancer patients and their family members.

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George's Journey: One Year with Glioblastoma
George’s Journey Facing Brain Cancer
George Kolasa was living his dream life as a fashion executive in New York City when in February 2022, he was diagnosed with glioblastoma – the most common form of brain cancer. In this special episode, George and his husband Justin take us on their journey as cancer patient and caregiver as it has unfolded in real time over the past year.
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How to Manage Side Effects During Cancer Treatment: Fatigue, Hair Loss, Skin Care and More
How to Manage Side Effects During Cancer Treatment: Fatigue, Hair Loss, Skin Care and More
Learn the most effective ways of preventing or mitigating the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation, including fatigue, hair loss, skin rashes, nausea and more.
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What Are Cancer Vaccines? How Can They Prevent and Treat Cancer?
What Are Cancer Vaccines? How Can They Prevent and Treat Cancer?
Hear two physician-scientists discuss the power of the body’s immune system to prevent and treat cancers, the difference between preventative and therapeutic vaccines, and which cancers are treatable with vaccines.
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Katie Couric’s Cancer Journey: From Grief to Advocacy to Her Own Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Katie Couric’s Cancer Journey: From Grief to Advocacy to Her Own Breast Cancer Diagnosis
After losing her husband to colon cancer in 1997, Katie made history when she received a colonoscopy on-air as host of the Today show, inspiring millions of Americans to do the same in a phenomenon known as the Couric Effect. Her role as the “screen queen” took on new meaning last year when she revealed her own breast cancer diagnosis.
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Cancer Straight Talk Ep. 36
How To Manage Chronic Pain During Cancer Treatment
Learn about the many options patients and doctors have to treat pain, including different therapies, safely managed painkillers, injections, and the possibility (and effectiveness) of psychedelics in the future.
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Dating After a Cancer Diagnosis
Dating After a Cancer Diagnosis
Navigating the dating world after a cancer diagnosis can be tricky. Hear personal stories and expert guidance for how to move forward with readiness and self-love.
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How Exercise Can Help Treat and Prevent Cancer
How Exercise Can Help Treat and Prevent Cancer
MSK exercise scientist Dr. Lee Jones discusses the most recent findings about the effects of exercise on cancer prevention, treatment and recovery, and provides advice for patients experiencing fatigue.
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What Makes Life Meaningful?
What Makes Life Meaningful?
While the holidays are meant to be a season of celebration, reflection and fellowship, it can also be a time of anxiety, grief or loneliness for those living with the reality of cancer. How does one find peace and meaning in the swarm of emotions that cancer brings up?
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Breakthrough Rectal Cancer Drug Trial: What It Means For You (Spanish)
Breakthrough Rectal Cancer Drug Trial: What It Means For You (Spanish)
A recent clinical trial for rectal cancer headed up by MSK has grabbed the attention of the world. Like a miracle, in a subset of patients with the right genetic makeup, an IV infusion of an immunotherapy caused a complete remission in every single patient. The doctors were shocked.
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Cancer Straight Talk Episode 31
Can We Prevent Ovarian Cancer?
Learn about a procedure that’s 100% effective at preventing the most common form of ovarian cancer: a salpingectomy, or removal of the fallopian tubes.