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Can One Person Change the World of Cancer?
In a recent conversation with Dan Pfeiffer , historian Heather Cox Richardson discussed the American deification of self-reliance, represented by the loner cowboy from the 1950’s on. “The myth of the…
Published on 12 hours ago
When Surviving Cancer Isn't Enough
The largest cancer meeting in North America just wrapped up. Held annually in the spring. the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting is where many big advances and discoveries are announced. T…
Published on 3 months ago
Vote for us in the Webby Awards!
I’m thrilled to tell you that Less Radical has received TWO nominations in the 29th annual Webby Awards: We’re up for Best Indie Podcast - Limited Run and Best Podcast - Documentary. We were chosen o…
Published on 6 months ago
BONUS: What Could Be Better Than a Mammogram?
Mammograms were introduced fifty years ago. Recommendations for women to have annual screening mammograms began thirty years ago. The hope was that by finding breast cancer early, we could drasticall…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 5: Bureaucrats, Administrators, and Politicians
When a colleague’s misconduct is discovered, Fisher is forced to resign from the NSABP and becomes the subject of a Congressional investigation. As the walls close in, Fisher fights back. He spends t…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 4: Immovable Objects and Unstoppable Forces
We return to Washington, D.C. In the fall of 1974, the results of Bernie’s clinical trials promise to change the treatment of breast cancer forever... if only it were that easy.
This is a public epi…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 3: Microbe Hunters and Magic Bullets
In 1958, Bernie Fisher participated in the first randomized clinical trial in patients with breast cancer. The trial was a disaster, leading most surgeons to abandon the idea of using chemotherapy to…
Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago
BONUS: The Other Side of the Knife
For most of history, the voices of women with breast cancer have been silent, including the daughter of an American president. Fifty years ago, they began to speak.
While Bernie Fisher worked to chan…
Published on 1 year ago
Episode 2: The Knife is the Cure
At the end of the 19th century, a New York surgeon determined that the only way to cure breast cancer was with radical surgery. For the next hundred years, millions of breast cancer survivors bore th…
Published on 1 year ago
Episode 1: Who is Bernie Fisher?
Our story begins exactly fifty years ago. On a fall weekend in late September 1974, a former dancer from Michigan and a young surgeon from Pittsburgh met just outside Washington, DC. The treatment of…
Published on 1 year ago