Ep 204 Cancer Part 3: How do we treat it?
This Podcast Will Kill You
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4.8 • 17.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
A century and a half ago, the list of effective cancer treatments was essentially a single entry: surgery. Today, in 2026, you’d need pages to contain the number of treatments available, and multiple notebooks to delineate all of the various therapies currently in development. It is nothing short of a revolution. Of course, no revolution is perfect, and many cancer treatments are ineffective or carry risks of serious side effects. In part 3 of our cancer series, we delve into all facets of cancer treatment, from the history of their development to how they actually work. Tune in to learn how far we’ve come and where we might go from here in our perennial quest to treat and cure cancer.
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:07.0 | People who didn't do what John of God wanted them to do, they usually disappeared. |
| 0:15.0 | John of God was once Brazil's most famous spiritual healer. |
| 0:20.0 | But in this limited series podcast, we uncover the darker truth behind his global empire of faith and fear. |
| 0:29.0 | From exactly right and Adonde Media, this is two-faced, John of God. |
| 0:34.6 | Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:41.4 | Throughout this series, we'll be discussing many aspects of cancer diagnosis and treatment, |
| 0:46.5 | and we will be sharing several personal stories related to cancer. Some listeners might find |
| 0:51.2 | this content upsetting. Please listen with discretion. |
| 0:55.4 | Hi-a. My name is Amy, and I'm a cancer survivor from Aterra, New Zealand. |
| 1:00.9 | My family has a history with a type of cancer called retinablastoma, which is a cancer |
| 1:05.8 | of the eye. |
| 1:06.9 | However, we can also track the history of how retinoblastoma is treated in New Zealand. |
| 1:12.8 | Starting with my dad, he was diagnosed in 1956 with bilateral retinoblastoma, meaning he had it in both eyes. |
| 1:21.7 | They treated him with radium, which looking back on it obviously was not the most effective treatment. It didn't kill any of the cancer cells, but it also gave him myelodysplasia, a precursor to leukemia. In the end, he had both his eyes removed so that the cancer wouldn't spread. I was diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma in 1994 and was given radiotherapy. |
| 1:48.0 | Radiotherapy was quite good at killing the cancer cells, however it also altered the shape of my skull |
| 1:55.0 | and gave me other numerous side effects which would, most of them were treated by either medication or surgery. |
| 2:04.5 | In 2000, my sister Meg was diagnosed with trilateral retinoblastoma, meaning that she had the |
| 2:12.5 | cancer in both of her eyes, but also a brain mass. She was treated with chemotherapy, which was still quite new at the |
| 2:19.8 | time, and we thought that while at the time it was a very hard treatment, it was the best of the |
| 2:28.1 | three. She had very limited side effects until she was 17. |
| 2:39.4 | Now, she was diagnosed with another form of cancer called osteosarcoma, |
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