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In Conversation with The Lancet returns with Dr Susannah Stanway, honorary consultant medical oncologist at the Royal Marsden and honorary clinical senior lecturer in Education at the Institute of Cancer Research, reflecting on London Global Cancer Week 2025. This episode goes beyond event highlights to discuss the need for a global oncology agenda rooted in equity, evidence-based care, and value across care settings. Topics span from geriatric oncology to cardio-oncology, nursing workforce resilience, cancer care in conflict zones, and sustainable health financing, showing how multi-stakeholder collaboration can drive policy and practical improvements, especially in low- and middle-income countries.

Listeners will take away practical steps for action: integrating geriatric assessment and baseline cardiovascular risk checks, strengthening cancer registries and national audits, and pursuing domestic funding for universal health coverage. The discussion highlights the urgency of addressing cancer globally including context specific solutions sensitive to local settings and emphasises prevention, early diagnosis, and accessible treatment as core priorities.

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Ultra-processed foods are on the rise. Despite the emphasis placed on individual responsibility, our deteriorating diets are primarily the result of the sophisticated political tactics of a powerful global ultra-processed food industry. Addressing this urgent threat demands a coordinated response from the global public health community. So argues a 3-paper Series published in The Lancet that examines the evidence, proposes policies to halt and reverse the rise in ultra-processed foods, and illuminates the fundamental political and economic drivers at play. Professor Carlos Monterio, Professor Camila Corvalán, and Professor Phil Baker join host Callam Davidson to discuss this powerful and timely Series.

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Download the 'Lancet Series on Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health' infographic here: https://www.thelancet.com/infographics-do/ultra-processed-food-2025

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Francis Couturaud joins Chloe Wilson of The Lancet to discuss the RENOVE trial, which looks at assessing the efficacy and safety of reduced-dose versus full-dose direct oral anticoagulants in patients in whom extended anticoagulation has been indicated.

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This week, we discuss treatment approaches for uncomplicated appendicitis in children following the publication of a trial in our January 18th issue. Lead author Shawn St Peter, general paediatric surgeon and surgeon-in-chief at Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, spoke with Callam Davidson about the motivation behind the study, key findings, and what the results mean for clinical practice.

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Michael Heneka joins Chloe Wilson and Bea Gomez Perez-Nievas of The Lancet to discuss a therapeutics paper discussing the opportunities and challenges of passive anti-amyloid β immunotherapy in Alzheimer's disease.

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ROSHNI-2 was a multicentre, randomised controlled trial that investigated the efficacy of a culturally adapted, cognitive behavioural therapy-based intervention for postnatal depression in British south Asian women. Joining us to share their expertise and perspectives are chief investigator Professor Nusrat Husain, trial manager Farah Lunat, and service user representative Fehmida Motala.

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Rasha Al-Lamee and Shayna Chotai join Chloe Wilson of The Lancet to discuss ESC Congress 2024 highlights.

The papers featured on this podcast are:

1) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01733-1/fulltext
2) https://www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1056/NEJMoa2409134
3) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01454-5/abstract
4) https://www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1056/NEJMoa2314328
5) https://www.escardio.org/Guidelines/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Elevated-Blood-Pressure-and-Hypertension
6) https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.08.027

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On August 14th, the World Health Organisation declared a public health emergency of international concern in relation to mpox. This was motivated, in part, by the emergence of a concerning new strain of mpox, clade 1b, which has spread rapidly across Central Africa. Joining me this week to discuss important clinical aspects of the current mpox outbreak are Dr Oriol Mitja, Associate Professor at the Germans Trias Research Institute in Barcelona, and Dr Hypolite Muhindo Mavoko from the Department of Tropical Medicine at the University of Kinshasa.

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Natasha Pocovi joins Chloe Wilson of The Lancet to discuss a trial investigating a walking and education intervention for the prevention of low back pain recurrence in Australia (WalkBack).

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Prasad Kulkarni joins Callam Davidson of The Lancet to discuss the safety and immunogenicity of a bivalent conjugate vaccine against typhoid and paratyphoid, following the publication of a phase 1 trial.

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