This Podcast Will Kill You is an educational series that delves into the biology, history, and epidemiology of various diseases and medical mysteries. Hosted by Dr. Erin Welsh, a disease ecologist and epidemiologist, and Dr. Erin Allmann Updyke, a physician and epidemiologist, the podcast aims to make complex medical topics accessible and engaging for a broad audience.
Cancer treatment should follow stage, tumour biology and the goal of care, not a default assumption that more treatment is better. Define early whether the aim is cure, control or symptom relief, and involve palliative care when burden is high or cure is unlikely.
Cancer is easier to reason through when treated as evolution, not a single mutation. Persistent symptoms still need escalation, family history matters, and early tumour shrinkage can mislead because resistant clones, microenvironment and treatment pressure all shape long-term control.
If "cancer" has started to feel like one word for too many diseases, this is a helpful reset. The episode separates invasion from metastasis, carcinoma from sarcoma, and TNM staging from tumour biology, so site, histology and stage stay distinct in clinical thinking.
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