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Inside Health

Alcohol, cancer treatments, hair, halitosis

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Following the latest figures on deaths from alcohol, Dr Mark Porter talks to liver transplant expert Dr Varuna Aluvihare from King's College London, the largest liver transplant centre in Europe.

Targeted cancer therapies - thousands of people with cancer are to have their genes mapped as part of a new drive towards treatment tailored to the individual. But what's in it for the patient? Mark discusses with Prof Peter Johnson, chief clinician for Cancer Research UK.

Mark talks to Dr Paul Farrant about caffeine - is there a benefit to having it in your shampoo?

Halitophobia - fear of bad breath and what can be done to help. Tim Hodgson and Claire Daniel from the Eastman Dental Hospital in London explain.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I am Ed Gamble, host of another BBC

0:04.6

podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like

0:09.9

Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylen,

0:15.0

and comedy specials from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Romesh Ranganathan.

0:19.9

However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncloked.

0:24.3

So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds.

0:29.5

Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health.

0:34.0

I hope you enjoy it.

0:35.8

Coming up in today's program, targeted cancer therapies.

0:39.3

Thousands of people with cancer are to have their genes mapped as part of a new drive

0:43.4

towards treatment tailored to the individual.

0:46.1

But what's in it for the patient?

0:48.0

I feel well I've made a complete recovery.

0:50.4

I've got away lightly.

0:52.0

It feels like I have, you know, and I think it is down to the treatment

0:55.8

and the research and development. They worked magic. Also coming up, caffeine. It's a natural

1:02.3

component of coffee, tea, cola and chocolate, but what's it doing in your shampoo? And continuing

1:08.0

the personal hygiene theme, are you worried that you have bad breath?

1:11.4

I'll be finding out why it's often imagined rather than real,

1:14.5

and what can be done to help people with halitophobia.

1:18.1

But first alcohol and new figures for England and Wales from the Office for National Statistics,

1:22.8

showing that while the alcohol-related death rate has fallen significantly in Wales,

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