Episode 145: Dietary Interventions and Cancer With Urvi Shah

Episode 145: Dietary Interventions and Cancer With Urvi Shah

Making her triumphant return to the show is Urvi Shah, MD, hem/onc and multiple myeloma expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, this time to shed light on how dietary considerations present a low-risk way to modify the microbiome and help prevent cancer. She opines on whether her findings on the association between diet and cancer in myeloma will be scalable in other malignancies, offers a few of her findings related to dietary habits and cancer diagnoses, describes the double standard in the ways drug vs dietary clinical trials are considered, and shares a recent publication she published on the planetary impact of dietary choices, among other discussion points.

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