Yale Answers

Yale's Cancer Center sponsors a weekly radio show called Yale Cancer Center Answers. I've linked to it a couple of times over the last two and a half years (wow -- can you believe I'm closing in on two and a half years of this stuff?). The show discusses all types of cancer, as well as related issues like helping caregivers, treating particular populations, and clinical trials. I didn't fully understand stem cell transplants until i heard their broadcast. It's a really nice series.

Last week's show featured Dr. Francine Foss, one of the lymphoma specialists at Yale, and a frequent guest on the show. Her specialty is T-Cell Lymphoma; mine is B-Cell, so it's unliely that we'll cross paths, but I do admire her ability to make compicated things much easier to understand.

The show's topic was What To Expect When Diagnosed with Lymphoma (click the title to hear a recording on the show). Certainly not immediately relevent for me, since in two and a half years I've pretty much figured out what to expect.

But it's a nice reminder of the Big Picture, and she does discuss the usefulness of watching and waiting, the miracle of Rituxan, the hope of RIT, touches on some of the more current approaches to treatment -- also nice reminders.

Recommended listening.