Ep 205 Cancer Part 4: Where do things stand today?

Ep 205 Cancer Part 4: Where do things stand today?

For the entirety of our species’ history, our approach to cancer has largely been to react, to design new therapies and better combinations of treatments. This energy has certainly been well-spent, but what if we didn’t have to use treatment at all? Or what if we could minimize the use of aggressive therapies? Prevention and screening represent two under-appreciated pillars of cancer care, and we’re using this final installment in our cancer miniseries to show some appreciation. To grasp the impact that screening and prevention can have, we also need to consider the global landscape of cancer prevalence and incidence - where is it decreasing? Where is it on the rise? Where can intervention or prevention make an impact? As we’ve shown over these four episodes, science and medicine has accumulated a wealth of information about cancer - but the striking racial and socioeconomic disparities in cancer incidence and mortality in the US and around the world demonstrates that that knowledge has not been applied equally. Any proposal to reduce the global cancer burden must address the systemic issues driving these disparities. Tune in for a thought-provoking reflection on the status of cancer today.

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Ep 23 Opening a can of Hookworms

Ep 23 Opening a can of Hookworms

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Ep 22 Belladonna will dilate your mind: Crossover w/ IDOP

Ep 22 Belladonna will dilate your mind: Crossover w/ IDOP

Are you ready to dilate your mind? Or at least your eyes? We hope so, because that means you’re ready for another Poisoncast episode! This week we’re joined by our friend Matt Candeias from In Defense...

19 Maalis 20191h 4min

Ep 21 Measles: The Worst Souvenir

Ep 21 Measles: The Worst Souvenir

You’ve seen the recent headlines and heard the news reports, but they’re only part of this deadly virus’s story. This week we’re covering the rest. We take you on a one-of-a-kind tour of measles, expl...

5 Maalis 20191h 13min

Ep 20 Prions: Apocalypse Cow

Ep 20 Prions: Apocalypse Cow

This week's episode is nothing like any of our past episodes, and there will never be another quite like it. How can we be so sure, you ask? Because this week, we're covering prions, the terrifying, g...

19 Helmi 20191h 26min

Ep 19 Scurvy: Thanks a lot, evolution.

Ep 19 Scurvy: Thanks a lot, evolution.

Arr, mateys, climb aboard for a swash-buckling tale of when the high seas were full of disease! Today we’re covering a non-infectious but no less terrifying scourge that has wrecked millions of lives ...

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Ep 18 Hantavirus: The Real Rat Race

Ep 18 Hantavirus: The Real Rat Race

What do Korea, Slovenia, Finland, and the southwestern US all have in common? If you guessed Hantaviruses, you’d be quite correct. Today we bring you all the details on hantaviruses, from the deadly a...

22 Tammi 20191h 3min

Ep 17 Oh No Tetrodo: Crossover w/ TBOSP

Ep 17 Oh No Tetrodo: Crossover w/ TBOSP

Are you hungry for braaaaiiiinnnnssss? Or for fugu at the very least? We hope so, because this week we’re talking zombies and tetrodotoxin. In this crossover episode with Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton fro...

8 Tammi 20191h 6min

Ep 16 Scratch and Sniff Diphtheria Membrane

Ep 16 Scratch and Sniff Diphtheria Membrane

This episode is so good that we’re putting it out a full day early. Pour yourself a quarantini and cozy up with us as we tell you a story of a bacterium that slowly strangles children to death, a scie...

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