The Onco'Zine Brief

In this episode of The Onco'Zine Brief Peter Hofland and Sonia Portillo talk with Alice Crisci. Alice is a cancer survivor. As part of her journey to survival Crisci founded Fertile Action, a cancer charity established to ensure fertile people touched by cancer can become mothers. As a cancer survivor and a single mom who faced issues of infertility, Alice dealt with the challenges of figuring out...

Each year, 1.4 million people are diagnosed with lung cancer worldwide. The 5-year survival rate for these patients is only 15.9%. In this episode of the Peter Hofland and Sonia Portillo, the team behind The Onco'Zine Brief, interview Bonnie Adario, Cancer Survivor. Addario was was first diagnosed with stage 3b lung cancer in 2004, a cancer with a survival rate of only 5%. As part of her treatment...

In this episode of The Onco'Zine Brief, Peter Hofland and Sonia Portillo, talk with David R. Epstein B.Sc, MBA, the Executive Chairman of Rubius Therapeutics. Epstein explains how his company is pioneering novel Red-Cell Therapeutics or RCTs – nicknamed ‘superblood’ – as a new class of medicines to address a wide array of diseases. He explains how these novel drugs have leading applications in can...

Lung cancer remains one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers. It is also one of the deadliest cancers – with each year more than 1.6 million tumor-related deaths worldwide. The correlation between smoking and mortality from lung cancer has been clearly confirmed and a decrease of mortality after cessation of tobacco use has been seen in the United States. Since the 1990s first in men and later...

In this episode of The Onco'Zine Brief, Peter Hofland and Sonia Portillo talk with Robert Z. Orlowski, MD, PhD, chairman, Ad Interim, Director of Myeloma and Professor of Medicine in the Departments of Lymphoma, Myeloma and Experimental Therapeutics in the Division of Cancer Medicine at MD Anderson in Houston, Texas. They ask Orlowski about his thoughts and unique perspective on research and the r...

In this episode of The Onco'Zine Brief, recorded during CPhI World Wide, held October 24 - 27, 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany, Peter Hofland and Sonia Portillo, interview Charlie Johnson, the CEO of ADC Bio. ADC Bio, a biotechnology company developing new process technology to speed, simplify and significantly lower the production costs of the latest generation of novel anti-cancer blockbuster drugs k...

Even modest use of alcohol may increase cancer risk. The greatest risks are observed with heavy, long-term use of alcohol. Now, for the first time, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has formally recognized that alcohol drinking is a risk factor for multiple malignancies. This risk is, however, potentially modifiable. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podca...