Show 1029: How to Mobilize the Immune System to Fight Cancer
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Our immune systems are supposed to protect us from attack. Viruses, bacteria and fungi that try to invade can all trip alarm signals that awaken the body’s natural defenses.
Cancer is not an invader, however. A tumor is made of our own cells, although they are growing out of control.
Sparking the Immune System into Action Against Cancer:
So how can the immune system recognize cancer and put up protection against it? Immunologists are coming up with new treatments that can help mobilize the immune system to get cancers under control. Learn how they work, and why they might even work better than surgery, chemotherapy or radiation for certain types of cancers.
This Week’s Guests:
Sharon S. Evans, Ph.D., is a Professor of Oncology in the Department of Immunology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and former president of the national Society for Thermal Medicine. Her research focuses on the cues that drive immune responses during inflammation or cancer immunotherapy. The photo is of Dr. Evans.
David Kroll, PhD, is a pharmacologist and medical writer in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. He has taught at the University of Colorado, Duke University and North Carolina Central University. He now works on educating the public on matters pharmacological through his blogs.
Jonathan Serody, PhD, holds the Elizabeth Thomas endowed chair for medicine, microbiology and immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the Associate Director for translational sciences in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at UNC and runs the leukemia and bone marrow program in the UNC cancer hospital. His laboratory does research on T-cells, B-cells and the responses to tumor vaccines.
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The Extended Interview with Dr. Serody and Dr. Kroll:
We talked with Jonathan Serody, PhD, and David Kroll, PhD, for 50 minutes on topics such as Dr. Serody’s research into chimeric antigen receptor T-cells (CAR T) and the possibilities for treating metastatic cancer.
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| 0:30.9 | Is the old paradigm for cancer treatment about to change? How can the immune system be mobilized to fight cancer? |
| 0:39.3 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:49.8 | For decades, cancer doctors have relied on surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation to counter this dreaded disease. |
| 0:56.9 | But 100 years ago, one cancer surgeon found a unique way to stimulate the immune system to attack tumors. |
| 1:04.4 | Researchers are now going back to the future with modern immunotherapy. |
| 1:08.6 | We'll talk with leading cancer researchers about the latest developments in the rebirth of |
| 1:13.9 | immunotherapy. We'll find out how oncologists are recruiting T-cells for cancer treatment. |
| 1:20.1 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, the latest developments in the war on cancer. |
| 1:25.4 | First, the news. |
| 1:29.7 | In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, long-lasting lower back pain responds surprisingly well |
| 1:37.0 | to both mindfulness-based stress reduction and cognitive behavioral therapy. |
| 1:42.3 | These mind-body approaches are not usually considered mainstream |
| 1:45.6 | treatments for chronic back pain, but a new study in JAMA suggests that they deserve far greater |
| 1:51.9 | respect than they usually get. In this trial, 342 adults with chronic back pain were randomly assigned |
| 1:59.2 | to get usual care, classes in mindfulness and meditation, |
| 2:03.4 | or cognitive behavioral therapy. Both the stress reduction approach and the behavioral therapy |
| 2:09.2 | produced significant improvement. Roughly 44% in both groups found that they were functioning better |
| 2:15.8 | and their back pain was less bothersome at the |
| 2:18.2 | end of six months. That compared to 26 percent of the people getting standard care. Given the recent |
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