Understanding Childhood Cancer With Dr Geoff

Lymphomas make up about 11% of childhood cancer, and there are several different types. Link to Patreon Hosted on Acast.... Read more

At the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in June 2016, a study was presented looking at using two autologou... Read more

All about acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in childhood Link to Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf... Read more

Acute myeloid leukaemia is the second main form of leukaemia in childhood. This podcast explains what the disease is, an... Read more

Ifosfamide is another chemotherapy drug, used particularly in certain sarcomas and certain patients with leukaemia. This... Read more

The doctors and nurses keep raving on about fevers, not cancer.... what's this all about?This information may be life-sa... Read more

All about rhabdomyosarcoma. What sort of tumour is it? Where does it occur? What tests are needed? How is it treated? Li... Read more

Introduction to chemotherapy in the treatment of childhood cancer. Dr Geoff explains what chemotherapy is, how it works,... Read more

Cisplatin is a chemotherapy drug that is particularly used in osteosarcoma, neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, germ cell tu... Read more

When eating and nasogastric feeding aren't working, we may need to give nutrition straight into the vein. That's called ... Read more

If nutrition is so important, then what food should kids eat while on chemotherapy? Link to Patreon Hosted on Acast. See... Read more

Parents always ask why their child developed cancer. They ask if it is genetic, meaning is it something hereditary, or s... Read more

In this episode I read out for you an article written by Dr Susan Cohn from the University of Chicago. Dr Cohn is an emi... Read more

Children on chemotherapy can really struggle to maintain their weight. This episode explains why. Link to Patreon Hosted... Read more

Chemotherapy can make the white blood cell count drop, predisposing to infection. These drugs work to boost white blood ... Read more

We often need to evaluate heart function during chemotherapy. This episode explains what the tests are, and why we need ... Read more

Exciting new antibodies against cancer were reported at ASCO this year. This episode explains how they work. Will they e... Read more

We often need to take samples of the spinal fluid, and regularly inject chemotherapy drugs there too. We do this using a... Read more

What are the main types of bone tumours in children and young adults? What is Ewing sarcoma, what is osteosarcoma? Link ... Read more

There's multiple ways the DNA code can get messed up and lead to cancer. This episode describes some of them, along with... Read more