Neil Canavan's guest appearances

Neil Canavan

Frankly Speaking About Cancer with the Cancer Support Community

The Onco'Zine Brief

Charlie Johnson

Jamie Aten

Marin Mazzie

Nick Charles

James Welsh

Jason Danieley

Ken Griffey

Amy Berman

Noopur Raje

Otis Brawley

Armon Sharei

Liz Fisher

Caitlin Kiernan

Dan Duffy

Hans Rueffert

OwlTail

In this edition of The Onco’Zine Brief, Sonia Portillo talks with Neil Canavan about the people involved in developing novel, advanced – and sometimes – highly personalized - anti-cancer treatments.Canavan is a veteran journalist with more than 20 years of experience reporting on science and medicine.  For the last 5 years he has reported exclusively on issues related to drug development in cancer.In his new book "A Cure Within - Scientists Unleashing The Immune System to Kill Cancer," published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Neil Canavan writes about the power of the immune system and his reasons and motivation to write the book.Canavan explains how the way we treat cancer is about to change forever. He writes about a revolution--and it is precisely that--which was sparked not by the invention of a new drug, but by the evolution of an entirely new way of thinking about and managing cancer.Going forward, doctors will not use pharmaceuticals to attack tumors--not directly. Rather, the oncologist will treat the patient's immune system with a drug, and then the patient's own immune system will kill the tumor.Based entirely on interviews with the investigators, Canavan tells the story of the pioneers of immuno-oncology. It’s a story of failure, resurrection, and success. It’s a story about science, it’s a story about discovery, and intuition, and cunning. It’s a peek into the lives and thoughts of some of the most gifted medical scientists on the planet.Canavan's new book is not a textbook; It's a 'life' book. Precision medicine will save, is saving lives, and the book celebrates the living, breathing, thinking, charming, arrogant, funny, obstinate, amazing human beings who are making immuno-oncology happen.

In this edition of The Onco’Zine Brief, Sonia Portillo talks with Neil Canavan about the people involved in developing novel, advanced – and sometimes – highly personalized - anti-cancer treatments. Canavan is a veteran journalist with more than 20 years of experience reporting on science and medicine. For the last 5 years he has reported exclusively on issues related to drug development in cancer. In his new book "A Cure Within - Scientists Unleashing The Immune System to Kill Cancer," published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Neil Canavan writes about the power of the immune system and his reasons and motivation to write the book. Canavan explains how the way we treat cancer is about to change forever. He writes about a revolution--and it is precisely that--which was sparked not by the invention of a new drug, but by the evolution of an entirely new way of thinking about and managing cancer. Going forward, doctors will not use pharmaceuticals to attack tumors--not directly. Rather, the oncologist will treat the patient's immune system with a drug, and then the patient's own immune system will kill the tumor. Based entirely on interviews with the investigators, Canavan tells the story of the pioneers of immuno-oncology. It’s a story of failure, resurrection, and success. It’s a story about science, it’s a story about discovery, and intuition, and cunning. It’s a peek into the lives and thoughts of some of the most gifted medical scientists on the planet. Canavan's new book is not a textbook; It's a 'life' book. Precision medicine will save, is saving lives, and the book celebrates the living, breathing, thinking, charming, arrogant, funny, obstinate, amazing human beings who are making immuno-oncology happen.

Neil Canavan: How Scientists Unleash the Immune System to Kill Cancer

Neil Canavan joins guest host Linda House to talk about his new book “A Cure Within: Scientists Unleashing the Immune System to Kill Cancer” and shed some light on the history of immunotherapy and the scientists who have persisted in order to turn what was once a scientific hypothesis into reality. Based entirely on interviews with the investigators, this book is the story of the immuno-oncology pioneers. It's a story of failure, resurrection, and success. It's a story about science, it's a story about discovery, and intuition, and cunning. It's a peek into the lives and thoughts of some of the most gifted medical scientists on the planet.

A Cure Within - A conversation with Neil Canavan