Cancer Straight Talk Podcast
Cancer Straight Talk from Memorial Sloan Kettering is a podcast about cancer that brings together patients and experts, to have straightforward evidence-based conversations. Dr. Diane Reidy-Lagunes hosts this cancer podcast with a mission to educate and empower cancer patients and their family members.
If you have questions, feedback, or topic ideas for upcoming episodes, please e-mail us at: [email protected]
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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?
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
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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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
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
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?
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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Can We Prevent Ovarian Cancer?
Learn about a procedure that can prevent the most common form of ovarian cancer: a salpingectomy, or removal of the fallopian tubes.
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Achieving Excellent Healthcare for All: A Candid Conversation with MSK’s President & CEO, Dr. Selwyn Vickers
Hear Dr. Vickers' vision for achieving health equity, from restoring trust in the system, to overcoming racial bias, to improving people’s access to top hospitals.
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When the Doctor Becomes the Patient: A Conversation with Dr. Mark Lewis
On day one of his oncology fellowship, Mark developed an abdominal pain and was suddenly diagnosed with the very same cancer that took his father; a cancer that can be passed down to his children as well.