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Podcast: Einstein A Go-Go
Episode: Beta-blockers and anthracycline chemotherapy
Description: Hosts: Dr Shane, Dr Jen, Dr Euan,News items: The symbiotic relationship between fungi and trees, using ultrasound to cross the blood-brain barrier, thanatosis, recolonisation of ants. In this episode the team was joined by Dr Aeson Chang from Monash University. Dr Chang’s current work is focused on exploring how beta-blockers interact with anthracycline chemotherapy with the goal to improve outcomes for triple negative breast cancer patients. In a study recently published in Science Translational Medicine, Dr Chang (study lead author) used mouse models of cancer and analysed large-scale patient clinical data to discover that anthracycline ch...