That Cancer Conversation – Details, episodes & analysis

Welcome to another episode of That Cancer Conversation! 

In this episode Sophie delves into the big topic of food and cancer.

She begins the conversation with her first guest, Professor Marc Gunter, a cancer epidemiologist who specialises in diet and obesity and is part of Cancer Grand Challenges team, PROMINENT. He talks all about how food can impact someone’s risk of getting cancer and unpacks some highly talked about foods, such as ultra processed foods, coffee beans and even the trending ‘green powders’.

Later in the episode, Cancer Research UK’s health information manager, Dr Rachel Orritt, speaks about misinformation and how sensationalised headlines can often make it to our media and our feeds. She also breaks down some common cancer and diet myths that comes across her desk and what a healthy balanced diet actually means.

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Discover more about Cancer Grand Challenges 

Article --> Are ultra-processed foods linked to cancer?

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Welcome to another episode of That Cancer Conversation! 

We think of cancer as a primarily elderly disease but there’s a rising trend of cancer cases in younger adults (age 25 to 50), also known as early onset cancer. And in this episode we’re discussing what early onset cancer is and why it’s rising. 

To start the conversation, Sophie speaks to Dr Nisha Duggan, a former researcher and now science engagement manager at Cancer Research UK, to unpack what cancer is and why early onset cancer might be different.  

Sophie also speaks to Professor Andrew Chan, a co-lead for one of the Cancer Grand Challenges teams, Team PROSPECT. Cancer Grand Challenges is a global research initiative that identifies the toughest challenges in cancer research, and Andrew and his team aim to answer some of the biggest questions around early onset cancer. He explains not only how they’re trying to understand the rise in cases, but also how they can reverse the trend. 

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Extra links: 

Discover more about Cancer Grand Challenges 

Article --> E. coli toxin could be linked to rising rates of bowel cancer in younger adults 

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Welcome to another episode of That Cancer Conversation!

While bowel cancer is relatively rare for people in their 30s and 40s to get bowel cancer, cases are rising.  

At 39 years old Dr Anisha Patel (@doctorsgetcancertoo), a practicing GP, was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer. Now, 6 years on, Anisha is dedicated to raising awareness of cancer, especially in adults under 50.

In this episode we talk to Anisha discussing her diagnosis, her book and helping the Cancer Grand Challenges team, PROSPECT, work out the cause for the increase in numbers.

Anisha's book:

Everything You Hoped You’d Never Need to Know about Bowel Cancer

Read more about team PROSPECT

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Welcome to another episode of That Cancer Conversation!  

April is Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month, where charities and the young people we support come together to raise awareness of the unique challenges of having cancer during some of the most intense years of your life.   

In this episode Sophie speaks to Shaumya, who was 18 years old and getting ready to go to medical school when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma, right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Since joining the The Royal Marsden Youth Forum, Shaumya has been an advocate for age-appropriate care for teenagers and young adults.  

She co-hosts her own cancer podcast, Afterthoughts: The Teenage Years, highlighting teenage voices, and is also part of the Cancer Research UK for Children & Young People Patient Insight Panel, where she helps make sure people affected by cancer are always at the heart of our work. Recently, she’s helped choose our new logo and spoken to researchers from across the UK at our first Children’s and Young People’s Cancer Research Conference.  

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We’re back with another episode of our subseries, Longer, better lives! This series unpacks our recently published manifesto, Longer, Better Lives: A Manifesto for Cancer Research and Care.    

You might recognise our next guest, as she was part of our ‘Together We Are Beating Cancer’ campaign featuring on a TV advert as well as billboards and posters on display across the UK, during September.  

Dr Mei-Ling Lancashire is a GP who was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer 2 years ago. In this episode, Sophie sits with Mei-Ling to talk about her cancer experience and why she believes politicians need to start prioritising cancer.   

To join us in telling party leaders to back our calls for longer, better lives, you can sign our open letter.   

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Sign up to be a Campaigns Ambassador

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We’ve made huge progress on cancer in the last 50 years. 

But not all of it has been felt equally. People’s experience of the healthcare system, and ultimately how likely they are to be successfully diagnosed and treated, varies massively. These are known as health inequalities and can be caused by a range of factors. 

In this episode of That Cancer Conversation, we’re exploring how deprivation impacts cancer inequalities and what we can do to narrow the gap. 

We speak to Cancer Research advocate and public health manager for Luton, Elizabeth Bailey, the lead researcher of the Inequalities Cancer Outcome Network programme, Professor Bernard Rachet and Julia Cotterill, a health information officer here at Cancer Research UK.  

Find out more about World Cancer Day:  

• https://www.worldcancerday.org/close-care-gap 
• https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2024/02/02/world-cancer-day-2024/ 

Find out more about ICON and their work 

Read more about health inequalities  

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Welcome to another episode of That Cancer Conversation! We’re launching a new subseries which unpacks our recently published manifesto, Longer, Better Lives: A Manifesto for Cancer Research and Care.

At Cancer Research UK, we know that huge strides have been made in beating cancer – with survival in the UK doubling over the last 50 years.   

But this hard-won progress is at risk of stalling.   

The cancer crisis is urgent. Every day, people affected by cancer face anxious waits for tests and treatment, reflected in month after month of missed cancer waiting time targets. And for UK cancer research, we’ve identified a funding gap of more than £1bn in the next decade, putting our world leading research at risk. 

That’s why, in late 2023, we embarked on an ambitious policy development programme, giving a voice to the millions of patients and thousands of researchers who are demanding for real progress in cancer research and care in the UK. 

And so, Longer, better lives was born.  

Follow Sophie over the next five episodes as she uncovers the missions behind this manifesto and why we need it now more than ever. 

In this first episode, Sophie speaks to Shaun Walsh, Head of public affairs and campaigns at Cancer Research UK. Shaun has followed the manifesto’s journey, from conception to its launch in November, and explains what it is and why Cancer Research UK has created it. 

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Clinical trials are a vital step in the development of new medicines of any kind, and that includes new cancer treatments. They aim to find out whether new treatments are safe and effective and work better than current treatments. 

In this episode of That Cancer Conversation, we're going to take you into the world of clinical research and walk you through the pathway, from how we design trials in the first place, right through to taking part, to give you the full picture of what a clinical trial really involves. 

We spoke to Ruth Plummer, professor of experimental cancer medicine at the University of Newcastle, Karen Turner, a senior research nurse at the University of Birmingham, and Peter, who took part in the Cancer Research UK-funded CHHiP trial after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. 

Learn more about the topic: 

• What are clinical trials? 
• Find a clinical trial 
• CHHiP 
• Our senior research nurses 

If you’d like to talk to someone, our nurses are available Monday to Friday 9-5pm on freephone 0808 800 4040. 

For more news about all things cancer, check out Cancer News

And if you have a question you’d like us to answer or topic you want us to explore, you can send an email to sciencesurgery@cancer.org.uk and tell us about your idea! 

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Our latest podcast is about how families cope with cancer, and the scientific progress helping them through.

Austin was diagnosed with a type of blood cancer called acute lymphoblastic leukaemia when he was 2 years old.

In 2016, scientists took some cells from Austin’s immune system. Dr Sara Ghorashian, from the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, changed them so they could recognise cancer cells as a threat. Then they were put back into Austin’s body. 

Since then, Austin has been cancer free. Now he’s even helping researchers find out how to make CAR-T cell therapy more effective.  

Lou and Scott take us through Austin’s story, and Sara guides us through the science that has helped keep it going. We also speak to Caroline Leek, a former scientist who specialises in supporting families affected by cancer, about how focusing on fun can help adults and children talk about painful and emotional experiences. 

Learn more about the resources discussed: 

• About Cancer - Children’s cancer 
• Fruit Fly Collective 
• CARPALL trial 
• Echo Games 

For more cancer stories, check out Cancer News!

And if you have a question you’d like us to answer or topic you want us to explore, you can send an email to sciencesurgery@cancer.org.uk and tell us about your idea! 

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In our new podcast series, That Cancer Conversation: One to One, we’re talking to the people who make Cancer Research UK what it is. 

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and in this first episode we’re hearing from Dr Laura Danielson, our research lead for children’s and young people’s cancer.  

Laura moved across the Atlantic to make sure her work had the best chance of helping patients. And, since arriving in the UK, she’s gone from testing a neuroblastoma treatment as one of our funded researchers to managing our entire research strategy for children’s and young people’s cancers. 

Here she takes us through everything she’s learned along the way, explaining how the people she’s met and the challenges she’s faced continue to drive her, and reflecting on what it means to work for a future where all children and young people can live longer, better lives, free from the fear of cancer. 

Learn more about the resources discussed: 

• Cancer Research UK for children and young people 
• About Cancer – Children’s cancers 

For more cancer stories, check out Cancer News!

If you’d like to talk to someone, our nurses are available Monday to Friday 9-5pm on freephone 0808 800 4040. 

And if you have a question you’d like us to answer or topic you want us to explore, you can send an email to sciencesurgery@cancer.org.uk and tell us about your idea! 

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