NEW HAVEN, Conn.,
July 18,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Yale Cancer Center (YCC)
and Smilow Cancer Hospital (SCH) announce Dr. Eric Winer, director of YCC and president and
physician-in-chief of SCH, as the new host of Yale Cancer Answers,
a weekly Connecticut Public Radio program and podcast. He will make
his debut as host on air Sunday, July
21 at 7:30 p.m. ET on
WNPR.
Dr. Eric
Winer's first Yale Cancer Answers show is titled
"Confronting Inequities in Cancer."
Dr. Winer's first show, "Confronting Inequities in Cancer,"
features Dr. Tracy Battaglia, YCC's
associate director of cancer care equity, who will share her
research about how best to resolve health disparities. In
future episodes, Winer and his guests will explore advances in
cancer treatment, clinical trials, the financial toxicities
patients face, and how to improve quality cancer care.
"At Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital, we are
committed to providing the best cancer care, research, and
education," said Winer. "We are determined that everyone with
cancer who walks through our doors or lives in our community has
equal access to cancer care and to the advances provided by
research. Yale Cancer Answers is an important part of our mission
to close gaps in care by providing understandable and reliable
information about cancer and prevention."
With early onset cancers on the rise, Winer said there is an
increasing need for quality medical information patients can trust
about the warning signs of cancer, treatment options, and clinical
trials.
Winer, the Alfred Gilman Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
and Deputy Dean of Cancer Research at Yale
School of Medicine, is an internationally renowned expert in
breast cancer. He is a past president of the American Society of
Clinical Oncology.
Yale Cancer Answers averages 4,000 live listeners during
the weekly radio program that is also available on Apple Podcasts,
YouTube, and the YCC website.
To tune into Yale Cancer Answers, click here.
About Yale Cancer Center
Yale Cancer Center has been a National Cancer Institute
designated comprehensive cancer center since 1974 and is one of
only 57 centers in the nation. Yale Cancer Center is a
collaboration between nationally and internationally renowned
scientists and physicians at Yale School of
Medicine and Smilow Cancer Hospital. This partnership
enables the center to provide the best approaches for prevention,
detection, diagnosis, and treatment for cancer.
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