Episode 86
Ep. 86 - November "What's New" in cancer news and research AND Congratulations Julia and Matt!
In this month’s “What’s New” episode, we kick things off with some joy — catching up on life, sharing big updates, and celebrating JULIA AND MATT GETTING MARRIED! 🥂✨
From there, we dive into the latest breakthroughs happening across the cancer research world. Each of us covers a different area of emerging science, treatment advancement, or clinical insight — and as always, we break it down in a way that’s real, relatable, and rooted in hope. 🧬 Julia: Understanding Carcinoid Tumors, 💨 Leah: How Far Lung Cancer Treatment Has Come — Especially in the Last 2 Years, 🔬 Colette: Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough — Cryptic Peptides Reveal New Targets
Sources Below:
Cleveland Clinic Neuroendocrine Tumors
AACR Old New Borrowed and Blue, approaches for non small cell carcinoma
The Lancet - Lung cancer treatment: 20 years of progress
The full research paper is titled:
“Pancreatic cancer–restricted cryptic antigens are targets for T cell immunotherapy.”
Published in Science.
DOI: 10.1126/science.adk3487
Lead authors: Zackery Ely and Zachary Kulstad
Senior authors: Tyler Jacks and William Freed-Pastor
This was summarized in the MIT News article:
“Biologists identify targets for new pancreatic cancer treatments”
Written by Anne Trafton
Published May 8, 2025
