AI and Healthcare

How to catch cancer before catching its symptoms. Exo-what?

This week's guest is Dr. Paul Billings, a board-certified internist, renowned researcher, and clinical geneticist. Dr. Billings and Dr. Juneja talk about new methods of early detection of cancer and dive into Dr. Billings's recent research endeavor on exosomes and how they function to identify potentially cancerous cells from a single blood draw, even before symptoms occur. This revolutionary technology aims to redefine cancer screening as we know it.

Fruit Fly Avatars of your Cancer - See What Works

In this episode, we talk with Laura Towart, Founder & CEO of Vivian Therapeutics, a company that revolutionizes cancer treatment by personalizing it to each patient's unique tumor using an army of 500,000 fruit fly avatars. They use a patient's genes against all FDA-approved drugs to identify the drug combinations for people with advanced cancer. We also learn about their tool, TuMatch, which can quickly find treatments for colorectal cancer patients.

Gut Health, Diet, and Cancer

This week's guest is Dr. Sandip Patel, a professor of medical oncology from UC San Diego. Dr. Patel and Dr. Juneja talk about the gut microbiome, how it affects our health, and especially how it relates to cancer. In this very interesting episode, Dr. Patel shares some insights about his studies on bacteria that can impact cancer treatments. We also learn about antibiotics, probiotics, acid reflux, and the relationship between diet and cancer.

Telehealth: FastPass for Cancer Care?

This episode's guest is "America's Favorite Doctor,” Dr. Laura Purdy, a board-certified Family Medicine Physician. Dr. Purdy joins Dr. Juneja to talk about telehealth and how it's changing patients' lives by increasing access to care. In this episode, we learn how to find a doctor from the comfort of our own home and how screenings and prescriptions work on these virtual healthcare visits. On the topic of cancer, Dr. Purdy also shares her perspective on genetic tests for cancer prevention.

Take control of your data. Take control of your cancer.

Our guest this week is Mark Shapiro, COO of xCures. Dr. Sanjay and Mark talk about the importance of accessing and structuring patient medical records and how they can be used to help guide treatments and improve patient care. In this episode, learn about advancements in AI software that are now transforming the oncology sector and how xCures is harnessing this technology and making it available to every cancer patient and oncologist in the US.

Urinary cancers: how to treat its three organs, and why kidney cancers are strange

Dr. Sanjay Juneja had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Pedro Barata, Associate Professor of Medicine at Case Western University and a leading expert in genitourinary tumors. Dr. Barata addresses the topic of kidney cancers, most specifically, renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and clarifies their subtypes and the ways we can treat them. In this episode, we also learn about new therapies, like immunotherapy, and how they are helping prostate cancer patients.

Starving cancer cells without starving YOU - With Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee

Our guest this week is Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, a physician, researcher, and Pulitzer Prize winner. Dr. Mukherjee and Dr. Juneja talk about a new approach to fighting cancer, by analyzing the internal metabolism of the cancer cell so that we can prevent cancer growth by starving it. Dr. Mukherjee shares his learnings on how specific diets - targeting amino acids and other nutrients - in combination with other therapies, can help patients control their cancer.

GammaTile Therapy - A new way to fight brain cancer

Our guest this week is Dr. Jay McCracken, Neurosurgical Oncologist at Piedmont Atlanta Brain Tumor Center. Dr. Juneja talks with Dr. McCracken talk about the scary topic that is brain cancer. Can meningiomas be cancerous? Why makes it Glioblastoma so challenging to treat? Dr. McCracken shares some insights on tumor resection and the techniques used to achieve functional preservation. Learn about GammaTile to precisely deliver radiation and how it can dramatically improve the treatment of GBM in comparison with external beam radiation.