#573 Cancer Without Disease

Everyone talks about cancer screening, but it doesn’t always catch cancers early enough to make a difference in survival. Researchers are looking for early markers that will let us know something is going haywire long before there are symptoms or spots on an X-Ray or CT Scan.
Really early detection might change the nature of cancer treatment. Will this dreaded condition become more of a chronic disease like diabetes, to be managed for years or even decades?
Guests: Dr. Mark Kieran is the Director of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Salvatore Pizzo is Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology, and Director, Medical Scientist Training Program, Duke University Medical Center.
Michael Retsky, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Surgery on Judah Folkman’s staff at Harvard Medical School.