Up To Date | Don’t Eat Clay, Do Eat Dark Chocolate

Inquiring Minds

Science, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Female Host, Interview, Social Sciences, Critical Thinking

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🗓️ 9 June 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This week: New research shows a 6-month treatment for breast cancer is nearly as successful as the previously-standard 12-month course; the surprising effects that clay can have on your body; and a look into new studies that give new reasons why dark chocolate is good for you.Huge thanks to guest co-host Adam Bristol!Links mentioned:https://www.jwatch.org/fw114187/2018/05/18/herceptin-study-suggests-shorter-6-month-course-breasthttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26958-5Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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0:00.0	It's Friday, June 8th, 2018, and you're listening to Up to Date, a weekly science recap.
0:07.7	Kishore is on break this week, but I have a special guest.
0:10.7	Dr. Adam Bristol is trained as a neuroscientist and currently works in the biotech industry,
0:15.4	but I would argue his biggest claim to fame is he's my husband.
0:19.5	Hi, Adam.
0:21.3	Hi, sweetie. Hi, sweetie.
0:22.4	Hi, Andrea.
0:23.2	How are you?
0:23.9	Good.
0:24.1	Thanks for having me on your show.
0:25.3	I'm a longtime listener, first time caller.
0:29.0	So one of the reasons I wanted to have you on this week is because Kishore before he left
0:32.8	on break was like, hey, did you see this breast cancer study?
0:36.3	And I said, well, I can want up you on that.
0:38.8	My husband was just at the major conference in which the study was first presented. So this is ASCO in
0:44.2	Chicago. So tell us a little bit about the study that's made the news and why it's so important.
0:50.5	Sure. Well, you know, the ASCO meeting is really the largest annual conference of clinical oncologists in the world.
0:59.2	So it attracts 35,000 oncologists from around the world. So it's really tremendous.
1:05.2	And one of the themes this year that I picked up was that sometimes less is more.
1:10.6	And I think the trial that Kishore was
1:12.0	interested in is one having to do with the treatment of breast cancer. In particular, the use of
1:18.0	what's called adjuvant or post-surgical use of an antibody called trastusimab. Now, trastusimab
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