Preventing Prostate Cancer: Benny Gavi, MD, and Maya Eylon on PYP 546
Is prostate cancer preventable? What does the latest science say about dietary and lifestyle choices that can actually change the outcome?
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Cancer is a Disease of Identity: Rethinking Evolutionary Biology with Perry Marshall: PYP 433
Perry Marshall is one of the organizers of Cancer & Evolution Symposium, and a “pantomath” of the highest order. An engineer, marketer, writer, and science enthusiast, he has devoted much of the past 10 years to cracking the evolutionary code.
Marshall argues that natural selection is not the only, or even the main factor, in evolution. Instead, the organism itself exerts its will, and is an agent in its own evolution to further its own goals.
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Howard Jacobson on Staying True to My Mission: PYP 281
Yup, that’s me, talking directly to you in this episode.
I wanted to take a break from the guest-interview format because I have a lot on my mind.
Yesterday was my 53 birthday, and would have been my dad’s 100th (he and my mom planned well ;).
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Training for Life (Literally) with D Anthony Evans: PYP 270
D Anthony Evans found out at age six that he had a rare disorder (Neurofibromatosis) that caused painful tumors to emerge at random all over his body. And things just got worse from there.
His doctors explained that this disease generally leads to a highly aggressive form of cancer, MPNST (Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors). So he spent his youth wondering when and where the cancer would strike.
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Guest Post: PSA Screening Still a Bad Idea
One of the unsung heroes of modern medicine is Richard J. Ablin, professor in the Pathology Department of the University of Arizona. The discoverer of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), Dr. Ablin has spent decades warning doctors and the public that the PSA test is not only useless for population screening for prostate cancer, but is incredibly harmful. For every man whose life is saved via early detection of a deadly tumor, dozens are maimed by treatments for tumors that were never going to hurt them.
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