Flora Lichtman
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4,817 appearances
78 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Flora Lichtman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Patients face short life expectancies after diagnosis.
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Brain tumors are often impossible to remove completely, and the typical course of therapy, radiation and chemotherapy, doesn't always stop them from spreading.
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It's a daunting class of disease to study, but that didn't dissuade Dr. Michelle Mangia from trying.
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She's spent two decades working on understanding how brain tumors form and interact with healthy brain cells and pioneered the field of cancer neuroscience.
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Dr. Michelle Mangia is a professor of pediatric neuro-oncology at Stanford Medicine.
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Michelle, welcome to Science Friday.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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Thanks for being here.
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Let's go back in time.
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When you started 20 years ago, how much was understood about brain cancers?
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I mean, it's interesting that it was such a black box and so devastating and that you thought, you know, I have to take this on.
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Why did you think you might be able to make some progress?
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So you'd have a model to work off of.
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Why is brain cancer so hard to treat?
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Wow.
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Is the nervous system like a shield?
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How is it protecting these cancer cells?
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So the electrical signaling was actually driving the growth?
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Yeah, that's right.
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We have to take a break, but when we come back, I want to talk about how these advances in our understanding could improve treatment.
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