Understanding Cancer Treatment Options: Immunotherapy
Cancer cells often have ways to hide from immune cells. Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that helps our body's own defenses - "Natural Born Killers" - to more effectively fight the cancer. ...
26 Apr 202530min
Understanding Cancer Treatment Options: Radiation Therapy
Radiation therapy is the use of ionizing radiation—X-rays, gamma rays, or subatomic particles such as neutrons—to destroy cancer cells. Learn how it works, the types of radiation, and early and late s...
19 Apr 202532min
Understanding Cancer Treatment Options: Surgery to Remove Cancer
Learn how your treatment plan is decided and terms you may see We continue our series to help you understand cancer and its treatment. This week we focus on surgery, the oldest form of cancer treatmen...
11 Apr 202525min
How to Help Someone Feel Seen, Heard and Understood
Why “What Do You Need from Me?” Should be Among the First Things We Say When someone with serious illness needs to make a decision about treatment, is facing the end of their life, or grieving the dea...
4 Apr 202520min
Cancer Gone Wild - Learn All About Metastasis
Like the seeds of a dandelion drift on the wind and land other places, cancer can spread under the right conditions. How does cancer spread and why does it happen? We tackle these questions in this ep...
28 Mars 202525min
Proactive Planning: When is it Time to Think About Assisted Living?
How Get a Head Start and Investigate All Your Options - Before Your Health Declines How do you know when the time has come to choose an assisted living facility? Learn factors to consider and how to ...
21 Mars 202525min
What is Meant by Cancer Staging? Learn the Language of a Cancer Diagnosis
Cancer staging is very important to guide treatment decisions and eligibility in studies. When an oncologist delivers a diagnosis it will include stage, but what does that mean? After an agonizing per...
14 Mars 202534min
Are there Miracle Cures for Cancer? With Dr. Jeanna Ford
Nobody wants a cancer diagnosis, and it is easy to be drawn to promises of a cure in search of normalcy. Dr. Matzo shares pointers to help you spot a fraud. Dr. Jeanna Ford joins us again to also shar...
7 Mars 202546min
