My interviewee this week is a scientist from the School of Biomedical Engineering at King's College London but his work isn't specifically about cancer, in fact, he mainly looks at the heart. However, Dr Rick Southworth has been looking at using an old radiopharmaceutical for a new purpose, to see if we can tell whether certain types of chemotherapy are causing damage to the heart.

It is well known that some chemotherapy is harmful to the heart but it doesn't affect everybody and the effects on the heart are not immediate and may only cause problems later on in life. Rick is seeking to find out if we can detect that damage early. We talk about why that is significant, what improvements that might mean to therapy and how we are working hand in hand across different disciplines to help patients with cancer.

Rick is a friend of our interviewee from the last episode, Tim Jones, and we talked about Tim's YouTube channel on the podcast. If you'd like to find that channel then the link to Surf Insight is here.

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