Starving cancer cells without starving YOU | TARGET: Cancer Podcast | Ep. 30

Our guest this week is Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, a physician, researcher, and Pulitzer Prize winner. Dr. Mukherjee and Dr. Juneja talk about a new approach to fighting cancer, by analyzing the internal metabolism of the cancer cell so that we can prevent cancer growth by starving it. Dr. Mukherjee shares his learnings on how specific diets - targeting amino acids and other nutrients - in combination with other therapies, can help patients control their cancer.

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00:00 Introduction
03:53 Cancer is a genetic disease
09:35 Why cancer comes back?
15:44 Attacking the metabolic pathways of cancer
20:50 Cancers depend on nutrients
32:27 Combining therapies to fight the cancer

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— ABOUT Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee —
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Dr. Mukherjee’s THE GENE: An Intimate History is his latest work – the story of the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans, that governs our form, function, and fate, and determines the future of our children. Dr. Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. Dr. Mukherjee is co-founder of Faeth Therapeutics, which pairs nutrition with therapeutics to "starve" cancer.


— ABOUT DR SANJAY JUNEJA —
Dr. Sanjay Juneja is a triple board-certified Hematologist & Medical Oncologist serving as Chief of Oncology Service at Baton Rouge General Hospital, a social & news media personality known as the 'TheOncDoc' with over half a million followers, and one of fifteen social media doctors participating in the Healthcare Leaders in Social Media Round Table Series for the White House. He has been featured by The Washington Post as well as dozens of national podcasts and regional news channels (PBS, CBS, NBC, NPR), and has given keynote speeches and partnered with American Cancer Society, BeTheMatch, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Harvard University, Louisiana Department of Health and several others.

— ABOUT xCURES —
The xCures platform is a direct-to-patient and direct-to-physician portal that identifies the most promising treatment options for advanced cancer patients who are not responding to standard of care therapies.The platform captures data that also helps accelerate the development of promising new cancer drugs, expand the approved uses of existing drugs, and demonstrate value for reimbursement.

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