A new drug

Overlooked: Women's Health Can't Wait

25-10-2023 • 19 mins

In 2020, Mom was dealing with the covid pandemic as well as cancer. After her chemotherapy treatment ended, she started on a new drug, called niraparib, to try and prevent a recurrence. She would end up back in the emergency room, but this time, it wasn’t covid, or cancer.

And, I talked to Dr Tracy Brooks for a deep dive on PARB inhibitors, a relatively new class of drugs used in cancer treatment.

This episode features:

Dr Tracy Brooks, Binghamton University, New York.

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