Colostomy - Getting the Bigger Picture on Colorectal Cancer

02/23/22 • 23 min

As a pharmacist, I've tried to steer clear of stoma care but for people living with a stoma following bowel surgery, it's an important topic which affects their everyday lives. I had the opportunity to speak to Luis about his experience of being diagnosed with colorectal cancer and how he has coped with living with a stoma in the years since his successful operation to remove cancerous polyps from his rectum.
This is a really interesting episode in our podcast series with lots of useful tips to help both medical professionals and those with experience of cancer.
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Cyclotrons - Getting the Bigger Picture on Making Radioisotopes for Cancer Research

Have you ever had an FDG PET scan? Did you wonder where the FDG came from or even how the radioactive part, the Fluorine-18, was made? It probably isn't something that you have thought about but for researchers in the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at King's College London, a good supply of radioisotopes is crucial for our research so that we can make new radioactive drugs to diagnose and treat cancer.
In this episode Maggie spoke to Karin Nielsen who makes radioisotopes using the cyclotron based in the PET centre at St Thomas' Hospital. We find out what is involved, whether it is dangerous and what's happening with nuclear reactions going on underground close to the Houses of Parliament!
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Radiochemistry - Getting the Bigger Picture on being an Imaging Scientist

Phil Blower is Professor of Imaging Chemistry in the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at King's College London. He's a chemist at heart, with an interest in 'molecular imaging' using radioactive drugs. He has more than 180 peer reviewed papers and has supervised more than 30 PhD students. However, in the first weeks of his first academic post, Phil was diagnosed with testicular cancer.
Maggie talked to Phil about his work to develop new radioactive drugs for imaging and treating cancer, his thoughts on future developments in the Nuclear Medicine field and, of course, about his experience of having cancer himself.
We'd like to thank the Public Engagement team in the Centre for Medical Engineering at King's College London for their support of this podcast.
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