Cancer in our Community - The caregiver's episode pt 2

Terms like hospice and palliative care can instantly make us think of worst case scenarios, but whether you are a patient or a caregiver, they should be considered a normal part of the experience offered by experts in Supportive Care Medicine.

Treating a patient is not just about killing the cancer, but doing everything you can to improve their quality of life, a subject that Dr. Saima Rashid is familiar with as a specialist in palliative care, and Parmvir as a caregiver to her sister Sukhneil.

Season 10ScientistsIncApril 29, 2026Everyman Kings Crosscancer, cancer research, caregiving, palliative careComment

Cancer in our Community - The caregiver's episode pt 1

Cancer is a profoundly disabling illness, whether that is due to side effects from the life-saving treatments or the disease itself. Understandably then, patients need constant and vital support in the form of caregivers, but who do we consider to be a caregiver, and what does their role involve?

Season 10ScientistsIncApril 17, 2026Everyman Kings Crosscancer, cancer research, caregivingComment

Neobe and the Cancer Matrix

Using bacteria to treat a disease like cancer may not seem very intuitive, but there are very smart reasons for doing so. No one knows this better than Dr. Pedro Sampaio, co-founder of Neobe, a company doing just that.

Season 10ScientistsIncJuly 25, 2024Everyman Kings Crossbacteria, cancer, bioengineering, biotechComment

The science of cancer and care

Dr. Brandon Blue is an oncologist and physician-scientist at Moffitt Cancer Center. As a medical doctor he spends his time treating blood cancers, so this is an apt episode for Blood Cancer Awareness Week.
As a researcher though he's trying to understand more about disparities in diagnosis and treatment of such cancers so that all patients receive better care.

Season 8ScientistsIncSeptember 7, 2021science, scicomm, #2scis, cancer, blood cancer, health equity, black in cancerComment

Stem by name, stem by nature

She enjoys STEM advocacy, she works on stem cells, she is: Dr. Kristi Stemler. While she works at MD Anderson, she isn’t a cancer researcher. Rather she looks at the role of stem cells and diet in making cancer sufferer’s lives more comfortable.

We talked to Kristi about being a first generation college graduate, an artist and thrower of sharp implements!

This episode also features a guest appearance from cancer scientist, Stanford postdoc, and our SF taste of science coordinator: Saumyaa.

Season 6ScientistsIncApril 10, 2019science, scicomm, #2scis, stem cells, cancer, chemotherapy, artistComment

The immunotherapist

Kim Luddy went from aspiring marine biologist to actual cancer researcher. Now she's working on therapies to train our immune systems to attack cancer cells. Will they be a magic bullet? Probably not. Tune in to hear how immunotherapies could help, the joys of Twitter and how well Kim knows her cats.

Season 3ScientistsIncDecember 21, 2015 New World Brewery cancer, cats, immunology, immunotherapy, treatmentComment

When a cure is not enough

What if we had a cure for 1 in 20 cancer patients? Even better, what if we could cure cancer before it even occurred?

Meet Anna Giuliano, an epidemiologist at the Moffitt Cancer Center and the director of the Center for Infection Research in Cancer. There she specializes in research on the Human Papilloma Virus or HPV (not to be confused with HIV!). How does HPV cause cancers and how can we cure them with a simple vaccine? Listen in to find out more about Anna’s research, the benefits of recruiting Taylor Swift, and how sometimes girls and boys are the same.

Season 2ScientistsIncMay 28, 2015New World Brewerycancer, epidemiology, HPV, moffitt, vaccine, virusComment