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.
Episodes
9 episodes
The Bigger Picture on Living with Prostate Cancer
John had lots of helpful information to share with Maggie about breaking bad news to patients, the support that is available to patients and he explains about the Nuclear Medicine scans that he has had to check that his bones are clear of cance...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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22:56
The Bigger Picture on Predicting the Outcome of Chemotherapy
Maggie spoke with Dr Tim Witney who is pioneering a new radiopharmaceutical which he hopes will be able to predict, very early in a patient's treatment, whether their chemotherapy is going to work. This podcast series was produced i...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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17:39
The Bigger Picture on Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour (GIST)
Maggie spoke to Chris about his experience with gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST), how he found out that he had this rare type of cancer and the treatment he has had since. This podcast series was produced in 2021 by Maggie Coo...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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33:12
The Bigger Picture on Lobular Breast Cancer
Maggie spoke to Darlaine about her experience with a less common type of breast cancer called Lobular Breast Cancer. It really is quite different from normal breast cancer and is more difficult to diagnose and manage. Maggie also spoke to Dr Ge...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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48:14
The Bigger Picture on Hodgkin's Lymphoma
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 doi...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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43:34
The Bigger Picture on Ovarian Cancer
Maggie speaks to Maxine who was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer in the middle of the pandemic. We discuss her diagnosis and treatment. Maggie also caught up with Prof James Spicer who heads up a unit carrying our early phase clinical trials in th...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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42:47
The Bigger Picture on PET Imaging of Prostate Cancer
In this episode Maggie talks to Clive about his experience with prostate cancer. She also talks to two scientists in the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences about a new Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Radiopharmaceutical. P...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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38:20
The Bigger Picture on Sentinel Lymph Node Imaging
In this episode Maggie talks to Rachel about her Sentinel Lymph Node Imaging and with Dr Julia Blower about research into new methods for Sentinel Lymph Node Imaging which we are researching using iron oxide particles.This podcast series...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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34:38
The Bigger Picture - Introductory Episode
This podcast series was produced in 2021 by Maggie Cooper from the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at King's College London. This episode gives an introduction to the podcast and what it is about. Future episod...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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10:25