The Human Cost of Cancer - With Dr Azra Raza

What if we could detect and treat cancer at a much earlier stage than is currently the case? What if we could cure cancer through this revolution in detection? What if we could find cancer before it finds us? In this episode I am speaking with Dr. Azra Raza who is medical doctor and oncologist specialising in Acute Myeloid Leukemia or AML and a preleukemic condition known as myelodysplastic syndromes or MDS she is also the author of The First Cell and the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last and we discuss the future of cancer care where the methods of detection and treatment have changed very little over the last 40 years but the future is ripe for revolution. More about Dr. Azra Raza: Dr. Azra Raza is the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University in New York. Dr. Raza completed her medical education in Pakistan, training in Internal Medicine at the University of Maryland, Franklin Square Hospital, and Georgetown/VA Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and completed her fellowship in Medical Oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York. She started her research in Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) in 1982 and moved to Rush University, Chicago, Illinois in 1992, where she was the Charles Arthur Weaver Professor in Oncology and Director, Division of Myeloid Diseases. The MDS program, along with a Tissue Repository containing more than 60,000 samples from MDS and acute leukemia patients was successfully relocated to Columbia University in 2010. Before moving to New York, Dr. Raza was the Chief of Hematology-Oncology and the Gladys Smith Martin Professor of Oncology at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester. She has published the results of her laboratory research and clinical trials in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Blood, Cell, Cancer Cell, PNAS, Cancer, Cancer Research, British Journal of Hematology, Leukemia, Leukemia Research. She is also the co-author of GHALIB: Epistemologies of Elegance, a book on the works of the famous Urdu poet. Dr. Raza’s latest book, THE FIRST CELL: And the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last was published by Basic Books on October 15, 2019. Links: Website – https://azraraza.com/ LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/azra-raza-2a34a922 To subscribe to the BAREFOOT MEDIATOR PODCAST series - please visit JaneGunn.co.uk/podcasts If you would like to download a COPY OF MY BOOK together with a series of FREE VIDEOS for managing in times of Change, Challenge and Crisis – please go to JaneGunn.co.uk/Video