Sponsored message
Logged in as
Audience-funded nonprofit news
radio tower icon laist logo
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
Subscribe
  • Listen Now Playing Listen
  • Listen Now Playing Listen
AirTalk

Early Cancer Detection

When cancer is detected early, survival rates are very high. Yet most research dollars target cancer in its later stages, when treatments are far less effective. In light of these facts, why isn't more attention paid to improving cancer detection? Larry Mantle about the issue with Wired magazine Deputy Editor Thomas Goetz, and with Don Listwin of the Canary Foundation. Listwin lost his mother to ovarian cancer and has devoted his time ever since to making early cancer screening a public health priority.