Ep. 86 - November "What's New" in cancer news and research AND Congratulations Julia and Matt!

About this episode

The episode discusses recent cancer research breakthroughs while celebrating Julia and Matt's marriage.

In this month’s “What’s New” episode, we kick things off with some joy — catching up on life, sharing big updates, and celebrating JULIA AND MATT GETTING MARRIED! 🥂✨ From there, we dive into the latest breakthroughs happening across the cancer research world. Each of us covers a different area of emerging science, treatment advancement, or clinical insight — and as always, we break it down in a way that’s real, relatable, and rooted in hope. 🧬 Julia: Understanding Carcinoid Tumors, 💨 Leah: How Far Lung Cancer Treatment Has Come — Especially in the Last 2 Years, 🔬 Colette: Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough — Cryptic Peptides Reveal New Targets Sources Below: Mayo Clinic Carcinoid Tumors Cleveland Clinic Neuroendocrine Tumors AACR Old New Borrowed and Blue, approaches for non small cell carcinoma The Lancet - Lung cancer treatment: 20 years of progress Pancreatic Cancer Breathrough The full research paper is titled: “Pancreatic cancer–restricted cryptic antigens are targets for T cell immunotherapy.” Published in Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.adk3487 Lead authors: Zackery Ely and Zachary Kulstad Senior authors: Tyler Jacks and William Freed-Pastor This was summarized in the MIT…

People in this episode

Host: Colette Hoang

Topics covered

• cancer research
• treatment advancements
• carcinoid tumors
• lung cancer
• pancreatic cancer
• marriage celebration

Keywords

• cancer news
• research breakthroughs
• carcinoid tumors
• lung cancer treatment
• pancreatic cancer
• cryptic peptides

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, AACR, The Lancet, MIT News

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