Prostate Cancer: Detection and Diagnosis

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week we delve into the disease that accounts for a quarter of all cancer diagnoses in men: prostate cancer. We'll be finding out how it's picked up and diagnosed, as well as speaking to someone who lives with the condition. Plus, in the news: our update on the coronavirus, from life in quarantine to developing a vaccine; cutting aircraft emissions by flying just a bit higher; and how scientists can take a dinosaur's temperature from its fossilised eggs... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.0	Hello.
0:04.0	Hello.
0:05.0	Welcome.
0:06.0	Science.
0:09.0	And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Hello, welcome to the naked scientist, the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology, and medicine.
0:22.0	And that's with me, Chris Smith, and with Phil Sansom.
0:25.3	This week we delve into the disease that accounts for a quarter of all cancers in men,
0:29.6	prostate cancer.
0:30.8	We'll be finding out how the condition is picked up and diagnosed.
0:34.0	Plus a way to cut aeroplane emissions by flying just a bit higher
0:38.0	and were dinosaurs hot or cold-blooded?
0:41.0	How scientists can now tell a dinosaur's temperature just from its eggs.
0:45.0	The Naked Scientist Podcast is powered by UKfast.co-dotuk. UK.
0:55.0	The new coronavirus from China has continued to dominate the headlines this week.
1:03.0	On Thursday, the initial 83 people evacuated
1:06.1	from Wern City and quarantine near Liverpool
1:08.4	were confirmed, disease-free and released.
1:10.7	I spoke to one of them about his experience.
1:12.8	My name is Khan Lambert. I'm a PE teacher living in Woham China and I'm currently in quarantine on the
1:20.0	whirl. We were evacuated by the British government a few weeks ago.
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