Understanding Childhood Cancer With Dr Geoff

Understanding Childhood Cancer With Dr Geoff


Latest Episodes

Interesting article: do children with cancer have an underlying gene abnormality?
December 02, 2015

Parents always ask why their child developed canc…

Personalised Medicine 5: how to detect all these DNA abnormalities
November 24, 2015

There are multiple ways to go looking for DNA, RN…

Personalised Medicine 5: The different tests for DNA/RNA/protein abnormalities
November 23, 2015

This episode describes the multiple different tes…

Lymphoma 1: Hodgkin's and Non-Hodgkin's (x4)
November 02, 2015

Lymphomas make up about 11% of childhood cancer, …

Personalised Medicine 4: How DNA gets messed up to cause cancer.
October 29, 2015

There's multiple ways the DNA code can get messed…

Personalised Medicine 3: how the right DNA leads to the right cake.
October 21, 2015

The proteins have to have the right amino acids a…

Personalised Medicine 2: first ya gotta understand the proteins
October 20, 2015

To understand all this DNA analysis business, fir…

Glioma 1: what does 'grade' mean?
October 20, 2015

Gliomas are a type of brain tumour, and are usual…

Lumbar Punctures 2: injecting a drug into the spinal fluid
October 15, 2015

Some chemotherapy drugs don't get into the brain …

Lumbar Puncture 1: what is a lumbar puncture?
October 08, 2015

We often need to take samples of the spinal fluid…