Living with Prostate Cancer - Getting the Bigger Picture on living life to the full with cancer

10/11/21 • 22 min

John says "I've been extremely lucky in life" despite having had cancer of the bladder and then being diagnosed with terminal cancer of the prostate. His positive attitude rings through this interview.
John's prostate cancer was missed and by 2012 it had already advanced to stage 3 when it was eventually picked up. He was told that he had 2 years to live. He spent about 18 months feeling sorry for himself before he found a support group which changed his life. This episode is his story. It's full of interesting and amusing anecdotes and bits of advice which will help other people finding themselves in a similar situation.
Thanks to the Public Engagement team in the Centre for Medical Engineering at King's College London for their support for this podcast.
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Imaging Cancer Drug Resistance - Getting the Bigger Picture on FSPG

What if you could predict whether your cancer is going to respond to chemotherapy? Dr. Tim Witney's lab focus on cancer drug resistance and, in particular, trying to work out which cancers will respond to chemotherapy.
In this episode, Maggie talks to Tim about a new radiotracer called F-18 FSPG which gets transported into cancer cells and can show whether cancer has responded to chemotherapy. However, this radioactive drug has the added feature of being able to tell if the cancer is becoming resistance to that chemotherapy. Tim explains how we might be able to use F-18 FSPG to tailor treatment to patients in a personalised medicine approach.
To find out more about the Witney Lab and the exciting research going on follow this link: http://witneylab.com
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In this episode Maggie spoke to Peter Gawne about his work with radioactive nanomedicines. Peter is involved in optimising delivery of cancer drugs to the tumour site while minimising potential side effects. In order to better understand this, he uses radioactivity to track whether delivery of the nanomedicine to the cancer is successful.
We discuss the research that Peter is doing and its potential to benefit patients, particularly women with ovarian cancer using the drug, doxorubicin, encapsulated using nanomedicine technology.
Thanks to the public engagement team at the Centre for Medical Engineering at King's College London for funding this podcast.
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