The Bigger Picture
A cancer diagnosis can be a worrying time and we want to help you through that diagnosis and beyond. What is it like having a scan? What research is going on to make cancer diagnosis better? How can we improve patients' experience of cancer diagnosis? Can we develop better treatments? Researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King's College London will help you see the bigger picture by talking about their exciting research while patients who have gone through cancer diagnosis and treatment talk about their experiences of having scans and therapy. Through talking together we can find better ways to diagnose and treat cancer, improve patients' experience of cancer diagnosis and keep you up to date with exciting developments in the field of cancer diagnosis and therapy. The podcast is funded by a grant from the Public Engagement fund in the Centre for Medical Engineering at King's College London.
The Bigger Picture
The Bigger Picture on Hodgkin's Lymphoma
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School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King's College London
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Season 1
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Episode 5
Did you ever wonder whether different types of radioactivity might be better at treating different types of cancer? In this episode, Maggie talks to Dr Sam Terry who is working on radiation biology and she explains what the radioactivity is doing in the cell and why some types of radioactivity might be better than others. First thought, Maggie spoke to the father of a friend of hers; Vincent was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. We talk about his diagnosis and treatment, including his FDG scan and how that went.
This podcast series was produced in 2021 by Maggie Cooper from the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at King's College London.