The Bigger Picture
Health & Wellness Podcasts
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.
Location:
United Kingdom
Genres:
Health & Wellness Podcasts
Description:
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.
Twitter:
@BigPicPod
Language:
English
Contact:
07555782750
Episodes
Radiochemistry - Getting the Bigger Picture on being an Imaging Scientist
3/16/2022
Phil Blower is Professor of Imaging Chemistry in the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at King's College London. He's a chemist at heart, with an interest in 'molecular imaging' using radioactive drugs. He has more than 180 peer reviewed papers and has supervised more than 30 PhD students. However, in the first weeks of his first academic post, Phil was diagnosed with testicular cancer.
Maggie talked to Phil about his work to develop new radioactive drugs for imaging and...
Duration:00:38:05
Colostomy - Getting the Bigger Picture on Colorectal Cancer
2/23/2022
As a pharmacist, I've tried to steer clear of stoma care but for people living with a stoma following bowel surgery, it's an important topic which affects their everyday lives. I had the opportunity to speak to Luis about his experience of being diagnosed with colorectal cancer and how he has coped with living with a stoma in the years since his successful operation to remove cancerous polyps from his rectum.
This is a really interesting episode in our podcast series with lots of useful...
Duration:00:23:58
Cyclotrons - Getting the Bigger Picture on Making Radioisotopes for Cancer Research
2/2/2022
Have you ever had an FDG PET scan? Did you wonder where the FDG came from or even how the radioactive part, the Fluorine-18, was made? It probably isn't something that you have thought about but for researchers in the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at King's College London, a good supply of radioisotopes is crucial for our research so that we can make new radioactive drugs to diagnose and treat cancer.
In this episode Maggie spoke to Karin Nielsen who makes...
Duration:00:27:34
Surviving prostate cancer - Getting the Bigger Picture on prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment
1/11/2022
Allen is a running friend or our podcast presenter, Maggie. She caught up with him after he'd completed a 10km running race in the snow last month and talked to him about how he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and about the treatment that followed.
In the podcast, Allen and Maggie talk about some of the practical and emotional problems Allen faced from getting a biopsy done, through deciding on treatment options, other health issues impacting treatment and the practicalities of the...
Duration:00:31:36
Protecting the heart - Getting the Bigger Picture on Cardiac Imaging for Cancer
12/6/2021
My interviewee this week is a scientist from the School of Biomedical Engineering at King's College London but his work isn't specifically about cancer, in fact, he mainly looks at the heart. However, Dr Rick Southworth has been looking at using an old radiopharmaceutical for a new purpose, to see if we can tell whether certain types of chemotherapy are causing damage to the heart.
It is well known that some chemotherapy is harmful to the heart but it doesn't affect everybody and the...
Duration:00:38:16
Surfing through cancer - Getting the Bigger Picture on Rectal Cancer
11/22/2021
Tim Jones is a surfing instructor; when we heard his story we just knew we had to speak to him. Tim talked to Maggie about his diagnosis and treatment for rectal cancer and how he has coped with living with the consequences of the treatment. In an honest and thought provoking interview, Tim shares some of the difficulties he faces as a surfing instructor who has survived rectal cancer but is still living with the affects of the treatment. He also provides useful advice about how we might...
Duration:00:37:46
Radioactive Nanomedicine - Getting the Bigger Picture on Cancer Drug Delivery
11/1/2021
In this episode Maggie spoke to Peter Gawne about his work with radioactive nanomedicines. Peter is involved in optimising delivery of cancer drugs to the tumour site while minimising potential side effects. In order to better understand this, he uses radioactivity to track whether delivery of the nanomedicine to the cancer is successful.
We discuss the research that Peter is doing and its potential to benefit patients, particularly women with ovarian cancer using the drug, doxorubicin,...
Duration:00:34:06
Living with Prostate Cancer - Getting the Bigger Picture on living life to the full with cancer
10/11/2021
John says "I've been extremely lucky in life" despite having had cancer of the bladder and then being diagnosed with terminal cancer of the prostate. His positive attitude rings through this interview.
John's prostate cancer was missed and by 2012 it had already advanced to stage 3 when it was eventually picked up. He was told that he had 2 years to live. He spent about 18 months feeling sorry for himself before he found a support group which changed his life. This episode is his story....
Duration:00:22:55
Imaging Cancer Drug Resistance - Getting the Bigger Picture on FSPG
9/27/2021
What if you could predict whether your cancer is going to respond to chemotherapy? Dr. Tim Witney's lab focus on cancer drug resistance and, in particular, trying to work out which cancers will respond to chemotherapy.
In this episode, Maggie talks to Tim about a new radiotracer called F-18 FSPG which gets transported into cancer cells and can show whether cancer has responded to chemotherapy. However, this radioactive drug has the added feature of being able to tell if the cancer is...
Duration:00:17:39
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour - Getting the Bigger Picture on GIST
9/13/2021
Chris, a 42 year old father of 3, was diagnosed with a gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) in 2019. Having undergone surgery and started chemotherapy, it was found that the cancer had spread to the liver.
Maggie spoke to Chris about his diagnosis, the steps that were taken to identify the cancer originally and the treatment that he subsequently had. There are some fascinating insights into how the diagnosis was made, the symptoms that led to Chris seeking medical help and how he...
Duration:00:33:12
Lobular Breast Cancer - Getting the Bigger Picture on lobular breast cancer
8/11/2021
Around 55,000 women and 370 men are diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the UK, about 15% of these are diagnosed with lobular breast cancer, but what is lobular breast cancer?
In this month's episode, Maggie spoke to Darlaine Honey about her experience of being diagnosed with lobular breast cancer, the difficulties that she faced and her drive to find better management for patients with this type of cancer. We discussed whether it might be possible to use some existing radiotracers...
Duration:00:48:14
Hodgkin's Lymphoma - Getting the Bigger Picture on FDG scans and radiobiology
7/14/2021
In the first part of this episode of The Bigger Picture, Maggie talks to Vincent Kearney about his experience of being diagnosed and treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma. Vincent explains how he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma and the treatment that he underwent. He also gives a nice explanation of what it's like having an FDG scan in the PET centre.
In the second part of the podcast, Maggie spoke to Dr Sam Terry, who works in the area of radiobiology. We find out what radiobiology is and...
Duration:00:43:34
Ovarian Cancer - Getting the Bigger Picture on antibody treatment for ovarian cancer
6/15/2021
Ovarian cancer can creep up on you unexpectedly. Maxine had symptoms similar to a pre-existing condition and didn’t know that she had cancer. We talked about how she got her diagnosis, the symptoms she experienced and what had happened since that initial diagnosis.
We also talk to Prof James Spicer who heads up an experimental cancer medicines unit at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London. We discuss different types of treatment including a novel approach to using antibodies to treat...
Duration:00:42:47
Prostate Cancer - Getting the Bigger Picture on imaging prostate cancer
5/12/2021
Clive was diagnosed with prostate cancer back in 2016. He didn’t present with classic symptoms but his PSA levels suggested a problem. We talk to Clive about his experience and how his prostate cancer was treated. We also discuss improvements in diagnosis and staging of prostate cancer – how do we detect if the cancer has returned? What improvements have been made in treating prostate cancer if it returns or has spread to other areas of the body? We talk to one of our consultants, Prof. Cook...
Duration:00:38:20
Breast Cancer - Getting the Bigger Picture on sentinel lymph node biopsy
4/13/2021
When Rachel found a lump in her breast she thought it probably wasn't serious, the doctor wasn't too concerned either but sent her to get it checked out. Unfortunately it turned out to be breast cancer.
In this episode Maggie talks to Rachel about her experience of being diagnosed and treated for breast cancer. In particular, they talk about the sentinel lymph node biopsy and how that is key to identifying if the cancer has spread to other areas of the body.
Maggie also talks with Dr Julia...
Duration:00:34:37
An introduction to The Bigger Picture
3/26/2021
As a scientist at the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King's College London, I'm used to looking at pictures; they're usually pictures of scans either as part of a research study or scans of patients with illnesses like cancer. But is there more to the scan than just the picture? What's the Bigger Picture behind the scan?
In order to find out more, I talk with patients about their experience of cancer, of having scans and treatment for cancer, what's important to...
Duration:00:09:23