-
Mayo Clinic Radio: Pancreatic Cancer/Postpartum Depression/Population Health Management
Share this:
According to the National Cancer Institute, by the end of this year 49,000 people will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer ... and an estimated 41,000 will die from the disease. Pancreatic cancer remains a challenge to treat, but newer combination therapies are modestly improving survival rates. Cancer surgeon Dr. Mark Truty discusses the latest treatments, and pancreatic cancer survivor Dick Hansen shares his personal story. Also on the program, certified nurse midwife Julie Lamppa describes the signs and symptoms of postpartum depression ... and why it's so important to get treatment. And pediatric and adolescent medicine specialist Dr. Robert Jacobson explains why the new field of population health management offers hope for improving healthcare by make it more convenient.
Myth or Matter-of-Fact: The early signs and symptoms of pancreatic cancer are easy to detect ... but often are ignored or overlooked.
Miss the show? Here's the Mayo Clinic Radio podcast.
Follow #MayoClinicRadio and tweet your questions.
Mayo Clinic Radio is available on iHeartRadio.
Mayo Clinic Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program highlighting health and medical information from Mayo Clinic.
Access archived shows.
Share this:
Related articles
When Joanina Gicobi began her Ph.D. degree five years ago at Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, she was interested in thinking creatively about ways ...
World AIDS Day, observed on Dec. 1, raises awareness about HIV/AIDS and pays tribute to those affected by the disease. Globally, about 39 million people are living ...
Lung cancer is the largest cancer killer of adult men and women worldwide. One of the reasons is that by the time symptoms develop, the ...