Cancer - 101

TW: Today’s episode is on cancer which will affect one in two people.

I look at the different types, the variables that cause it, whether there are ways of preventing cancer and also why some cancers are common and others not.

Links:

How cancer starts: https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/cell-division-and-cancer-14046590/

Why are cancers on the rise?: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/researchers-report-dramatic-rise-in-early-onset-cancers/

The commonest cancers: https://www.healthline.com/health/most-common-cancers

Viruses and cancer: https://www.cancer.org/healthy/cancer-causes/infectious-agents/infections-that-can-lead-to-cancer/viruses.html

David Servan-Schreiber, the author of *anti-cancer* (survived over 20 years after being given 3 months to live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VNjuBgHIAw

RAS genes and signalling: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2019.00965/full

Dr Carl June and CAR T cell therapy: https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2022/november/car-t-cell-therapy-reaches-beyond-cancer

Macmillan Cancer Support: https://www.macmillan.org.uk/

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