Featured Program

The WNPR Health Forum is a radio show about... your health! Each Sunday evening at 6 PM, WNPR is proud to offer our listeners dedicated programming on health issues that matter to you. Hosted by Bruce Barber, the Forum begins with Yale Cancer Center Answers, a 30 minute program focused on cancer treatment and care hosted by Yale Cancer Center. We dedicate the second 30 minutes of the Health Forum to general health topics through WAMC's The Health Show.

 Using interviews with some of the leading minds in medicine, we cover cancer related topics each week with "Yale Cancer Center Answers", and general medicine with our friends from "The Health Show."

Yale Cancer Center is proud to announce a weekly radio show on WNPR - Connecticut Public Radio, Yale Cancer Center Answers. The radio program airs from 6:00 - 6:30 PM every Sunday evening and features the latest information on cancer care. Visit them online at: www.yalecancercenter.org/answers

Cancer Answers is hosted by Yale Cancer Center's Dr. Edward Chu, Deputy Director and Chief of Medical Oncology, and Dr. Francine Foss, Professor of Medical Oncology. The show features a guest cancer specialist who will share the most recent advances in cancer therapy and respond to listeners questions.

Myths, facts and advances in cancer diagnosis and treatment are discussed, with a different focus each week. Nationally acclaimed specialists in various types of cancer research, diagnosis, and treatment discuss common misconceptions about the disease and respond to questions from the community.

Listeners can submit questions to be answered on the program at canceranswers@yale.eduor by leaving a message at 1-888-234-4YCC.  As a resource, archived programs from 2006 through the present are available in both audio and written versions on the Yale Cancer Center website at yalecancercenter.org/answers/archives.html

Recent programs: 

August 1- Melinda Irwin, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine discusses Exercise and Cancer.

August 8- Dr. Lawrence Solomon, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of The Yale-New Haven Hospital Adult Palliative Care Service, and Leslie Blatt, APRN and Clinical Coordinator of the service, discuss Palliative Care.

August 15- Dr. Raymond and Kerry Russell discuss Cardiothoracic Chemotoxicities.

August 22- Dr. Alessandro Santin, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences discusses Gynecologic Oncology.

 August 29- Ellen Matloff, Research Scientist, Department of Genetics, Director of Cancer Genetic Counseling at Yale Cancer Center discusses Genetic Testing. 

Also on WNPR's Health Forum:  

Each week The Health Show breaks the issues down so you can be a better informed patient or care-provider.

Bob Barrett
host/producer | bob @ healthshow.org

Bob has spent over 30 years working in radio stations along the East Coast and has actually earned a living that way. He's been heard from Northern New York State to South Florida.

Dr. Nina Sax
co-host | letters @ healthshow.org

Dr. Nina Sax is a practicing gastroenterologist in Albany, NY. She's a graduate of the University of Rochester's School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Sax is a member of the American Gastroenterology Association and the American College of Gastroenterology
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