SciShow Tangents4 Mars 2025

Cancer Revisit with Deboki Chakravarti

We're thrilled to be joined for a special return to the topic of Cancer by our own magnificent editorial assistant, Deboki Chakravarti! We cover a ton in this beefy episode, so grab a snack, get comfy, and prepare to dive deep on a topic that's well worth the revisit.

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[Truth or Fail]

Water-logged diaper scans

https://www.nist.gov/pml/about-pml/pml-working-you/pml-working-you-archives/fighting-cancer-diapers

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2017/11/how-disposable-diapers-can-improve-measurements-tumor-growth

Toothbrush cancer camera

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2022/09/22/why-billionaire-eric-schmidt-is-backing-a-high-school-senior-making-a-cancer-detecting-toothbrush-and-other-brilliant-teens/

https://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/obstetrics-gynecology/news/a-substantial-step-toward-earlier-endometrial-cancer-detection/mac-20560620

Cancer-cell kleenex

https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/06/masspec-pen-cancer/

[This or That: Researcher, Patient, or Both]

Round 1 - Sister Mary Joseph Nodule

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468294222000089#sec0006

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00261-016-1031-1

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31864-6/abstract

Round 2 - Trousseau sign of malignancy

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468294222000089#sec0002

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1022062/

Round 3 - AOH1996

https://www.alexslemonade.org/blog/chance-meeting-leads-promising-cancer-treatment

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10592352/

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05227326

Round 4 - Papanicolaou (Pap) test

https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cncy.22734

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213294514002178

[Ask the Science Couch]

Proposition 65 in the state of California & carcinogens in studies

https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/about-proposition-65

https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/proposition-65-list

https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/how-chemicals-are-added-proposition-65-list

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6349368/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10311-023-01668-1

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/substances/wood-dust

Patreon bonus: Treatments for different cancers and why there’s no singular cure

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types

https://www.aacr.org/patients-caregivers/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/

https://www.cancercenter.com/community/blog/2023/10/cancer-is-not-one-disease

https://medlineplus.gov/cancer.html

[Butt One More Thing]

A trained dog could sniff out colorectal cancer in poop samples

https://gut.bmj.com/content/60/6/814

https://www.cshl.edu/the-doctor-will-sniff-you-now/

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