Understanding Childhood Cancer With Dr Geoff
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Interesting article: do children with cancer have an underlying gene abnormality?
Parents always ask why their child developed canc…
Personalised Medicine 5: how to detect all these DNA abnormalities
There are multiple ways to go looking for DNA, RN…
Personalised Medicine 5: The different tests for DNA/RNA/protein abnormalities
This episode describes the multiple different tes…
Lymphoma 1: Hodgkin's and Non-Hodgkin's (x4)
Lymphomas make up about 11% of childhood cancer, …
Personalised Medicine 4: How DNA gets messed up to cause cancer.
There's multiple ways the DNA code can get messed…
Personalised Medicine 3: how the right DNA leads to the right cake.
The proteins have to have the right amino acids a…
Personalised Medicine 2: first ya gotta understand the proteins
To understand all this DNA analysis business, fir…
Glioma 1: what does 'grade' mean?
Gliomas are a type of brain tumour, and are usual…
Lumbar Punctures 2: injecting a drug into the spinal fluid
Some chemotherapy drugs don't get into the brain …
Lumbar Puncture 1: what is a lumbar puncture?
We often need to take samples of the spinal fluid…