Cancer: What Is It? | This Podcast Will Kill You 202
Cancer has touched every one of us in some capacity, and learning of a diagnosis inspires many more questions than it answers. In this four-part series on cancer, we aim to lay a foundation of knowledge that will help make sense of this multifaceted disease. We begin our four-part series on cancer by asking a deceptively simple question: what is cancer? As we’ll discover over the course of these episodes, there is not one answer but many. After all, cancer is not one disease but many. In this first episode, we examine the clinical definitions of cancer - when someone receives a cancer diagnosis, how is that determined, and what does that mean? Viewing that question through a historical lens reveals our changing understanding of cancer and how that knowledge filters into the public perception of this disease. With cancer diagnoses on the rise, it’s tempting to label cancer a disease of the 20th or 21st centuries. But is that the case? Tune in to find out. Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/3WwtIAu Erin Welsh, Ph.D. is a co-host of the This Podcast Will Kill You. She is a disease ecologist and epidemiologist and works full-time as a science communicator through her work on the podcast. Erin Allmann Updyke, MD, Ph.D. is a co-host of This Podcast Will Kill You. She’s an epidemiologist and disease ecologist currently in the final stretch of her family medicine residency program. The Exactly Right podcast network provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for fans of true crime, comedy and popular culture. Created by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, hosts of the hit podcast My Favorite Murder, the ever-growing Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics and points of view, serving highly engaged audiences everywhere. Subscribe to the Exactly Right Channel! / exactlyrightmedia Follow This Podcast Will Kill You on Instagram: / thispodcastwillkillyou Follow Exactly Right on Instagram: / exactlyright Follow Exactly Right on Twitter: / exactlyright Follow Exactly Right on Facebook: / exactlyrightmedia Follow all Exactly Right podcasts: https://www.exactlyrightmedia.com
