Beat Cancer

Beat Cancer host Chris Joyce sits down with Dr. Gerardo Mackenzie, Dr. Cassandra Nguyen, and Charlotte Kerber to discuss food insecurity and its role in cancer care. Our guests have begun a pilot program with the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. To contact Dr. Mackenzie or Dr. Nguyen, please visit the UC Davis Department of Nutrition.

Beat Cancer host Chris Joyce sits down with Dr. Mamta Parikh, a medical oncologist specializing in the treatment of genitourinary malignancies, including bladder cancer, kidney cancer, prostate cancer, and testicular cancer at the ⁠⁠⁠⁠UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center⁠⁠⁠⁠. Also joining the conversation are Jesse and Beverly Campbell. Jesse is a patient of Dr. Parikh and talks about his experience with urothelial cancer and the clinical trials he participated in. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer⁠⁠⁠⁠.

For more information on the Campbell's book, visit https://gorhamprinting.com/book/my-journey-to-survive.

Beat Cancer hosts Chris Joyce and Stephanie Winn sit down with Dr. Shehnaz Hussain, molecular epidemiologist and Associate Director of Population Sciences at the ⁠⁠⁠UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center⁠⁠⁠ to discuss her study on wildfire smoke and how it leads to increased risk of cancer among firefighters. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit ⁠⁠⁠https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer⁠⁠⁠.

To learn more about Dr. Hussain's research study, visit: https://studypages.com/s/california-firefighter-cancer-research-study-215220/?ref=gallery

Beat Cancer hosts Chris Joyce and Stephanie Winn sit down with Dr. Amy Chen, Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the ⁠⁠⁠UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center⁠⁠⁠ to discuss ovarian cancer and Dr. Chen's new pilot study of a standardized extract of cultured lentinula edodes mycelia (AHCC®) on quality of life for ovarian cancer patients on adjuvant chemotherapy. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit ⁠⁠⁠https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer⁠⁠⁠.

To learn more about Dr. Chen's pilot study, visit: https://studypages.com/s/study-of-shiitake-mushroom-mycelia-extract-for-women-with-ovarian-cancer-672718/ or https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05763199

Beat Cancer hosts Chris Joyce and Stephanie Winn sit down with Dr. Megan Daly, Associate Director for Clinical Research and Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the ⁠⁠UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center⁠⁠ to discuss cancer clinical trials. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit ⁠⁠https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer⁠⁠.

Beat Cancer host Chris Joyce sits down with Dr. Mamta Parikh, Assistant Professor of Hematology and Oncology, specializing in the treatment of genitourinary malignancies at the ⁠⁠UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center⁠⁠ to discuss prostate cancer. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit ⁠⁠https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer⁠⁠.

Hosts Chris Joyce and Stephanie Winn sit down with Dr. Kent Lloyd, Associate Director of Shared Resources at the ⁠UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center⁠ to discuss how the shared resources available to researchers help to inform treatments for patients. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit ⁠https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer⁠.

Hosts Chris Joyce and Stephanie Winn sit down with Dr. Marcio Malogolowkin from the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center to discuss fertility preservation for cancer patients.  Dr. Malogolowkin is the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology for the Cancer Center. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer.

Hosts Chris Joyce and Stephanie Winn sit down with Dr. Richard Bold of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center and Rob Stevenson to discuss the UC Davis Cancer Care Network. Dr. Bold is the Physician-in-Chief for the Cancer Center and serves as the Medical Director for the Cancer Care Network and Rob serves as the Cancer Care Network Director. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer.

Hosts Chris Joyce and Stephanie Winn sit down with Dr. Robert Canter of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center and Dr. Michael Kent of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Canter is a Professor and Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Dr. Kent is the Director of the Center for Companion Animal Health at UC Davis and a Professor of Surgical and Radiological Sciences. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer.

Hosts Chris Joyce and Stephanie Winn sit down with Dr. David Copenhaver of the ⁠UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center⁠. Dr. Copenhaver is the Chief of the Division of Pain Management and is an anesthesiologist and pain medicine specialist with expertise in cancer pain management. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit ⁠https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer⁠.

Hosts Chris Joyce and Stephanie Winn sit down with Dr. Jonathan Riess of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Riess is a medical oncologist and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine for Hematology and Oncology. Dr. Riess is also the Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program which is the largest and most comprehensive program in Northern California, providing a wide array of clinical and research services, ranging from prevention strategies to new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer.

Hosts Chris Joyce and Stephanie Winn sit down with Dr. Julie Dang of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Dang is the Executive Director of the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement and is co-chair of the California HPV Vaccination Roundtable’s Engaging Health Systems and Providers Workgroup. Dr. Dang is also a cancer health disparities behavioral researcher with over a decade of experience engaging diverse and underserved communities in cancer control and prevention. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer.

Host Chris Joyce sits down with Dr. Annemarie Hargadon and Dr. Mook-Lan Iglowitz of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Annemarie Hargadon is board certified in internal medicine with subspecialty board certification in palliative medicine and hospice. As a clinical staff physician in the Supportive Medicine Clinic, Dr. Hargadon focuses on improving the quality of life for people living with cancer. Dr. Mook-Lan Iglowitz is a board-certified palliative medicine physician with a special interest in helping patients and their families face their illness through planning, decisional support, symptom control, and patient/caregiver education. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer.

Co-hosts Stephanie Winn and Chris Joyce sit down with Dr. Rebecca Ann Brooks of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Brooks is the Division Director for Gynecologic Oncology at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center and is an expert in the comprehensive medical and surgical care of women with uterine, ovarian, cervical, vulvar and vaginal cancers, and gestational trophoblastic disease. Dr. Brooks is also highly skilled in systemic therapy for gynecologic malignancies including standard chemotherapy to the use of novel biologic agents. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer.

Co-hosts Stephanie Winn and Chris Joyce sit down with Dr. R. Lor Randall of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Randall is the Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UC Davis Health with his clinical practice and research focusing on musculoskeletal surgical oncology and on building leading-edge trans-disciplinary teams to combat rare cancers of connective tissue in children and adults. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer.

Co-hosts Stephanie Winn and Chris Joyce sit down with Moon S. Chen, Jr., Ph.D., M.P.H. of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Chen is a nationally renowned expert in cancer health disparities, particularly as they affect Asian-American populations. He is the Cancer Center's Associate Director for Cancer Control, leading a research portfolio that addresses cancer risk determinants and their mitigation in human populations. He also co-leads the Population Sciences and Health Disparities research program for the Cancer Center. To find out more about the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement, visit https://ucdavis.health/ocoe. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer.

Co-hosts Stephanie Winn and Chris Joyce sit down with Elisa Tong, M.D. and Cari Shulkin, R.N. of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Tong is the Medical Director for the Stop Tobacco Program at the Cancer Center and works closely with tobacco treatment partners in UC Davis Health Management Education and Kick It California. Dr. Tong's research interests are in tobacco control policy and cessation, with special interests in health services delivery of tobacco treatment, interventions to address tobacco and cancer disparities, and the behavioral impact of smoke and tobacco-free policies. Cari Shulkin is board-certified in cardiac vascular nursing, and as a tobacco treatment specialist. Her primary focus is tobacco cessation education as well as self-management of heart and lung disease. To access health education classes at UC Davis Health, visit https://health.ucdavis.edu/livinghealthy/. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer.

Co-hosts Stephanie Winn and Chris Joyce sit down with Dr. Andrew Birkeland of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Birkeland focuses on providing care for all benign and malignant head and neck tumors and has specialized training and a particular interest in microvascular reconstructive surgery and transoral robotic surgery. Dr. Birkeland’s research focus is translating novel clinical and basic research findings directly to patient care by utilizing next-generation sequencing, immune profiling, biomarker identification, and animal models to understand the causes of, and treatments for, head and neck cancers. His aim is to advance precision medicine by providing personalized, optimized treatments for each head and neck cancer patient. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer.

Co-hosts Stephanie Winn and Chris Joyce sit down with Dr. Orwa Aboud, a Neuro-Oncologist treating patients with a variety of primary brain tumors such as glioblastoma and low-grade gliomas to discuss advances in treatments as well as signs and symptoms patients should be aware of when it comes to cancers of the brain. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer.

Co-hosts Stephanie Winn and Chris Joyce sit down with Dr. Primo Lara, Director of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center in Sacramento, Calif. to discuss what it means to be a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center as well as some of the elements that make UC Davis the premiere comprehensive cancer center in Northern California. To learn more about the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit https://health.ucdavis.edu/cancer.