Norman Swan

And I'm Norman Swan on Gadigal land.

And gene testing when you've got cancer, really fascinating study on children with cancer and whether you should actually look at the whole genome to see what's going on and it turns out important information and that might be relevant for adults with cancer too.

It is, and we had a moan about it last week on the programme.

On Saturday and on Sunday they announced it was going to be available.

So, you know, if you listen on Saturday, you're now out of date.

And we're out of date.

And also some new research on home cooking.

Your favourite topic.

So really interesting study is kind of what you'd want to believe.

There is a caveat in this sort of study, which is there's a long preliminary tail, if you like, or lead-in to dementia.

So you can have signs of dementia many years before you actually develop dementia.

So it could be, and this study really doesn't unpick that to the full extent, is that was it people who were not really heading for dementia, who tended to cook more because they were cognitively able to?

But there's plenty of other studies showing that it's not a bad thing to actually cook your own food.

I was looking this up just sort of to get some moral support for this kind of study.

There's an interesting French study showing, I mean, there's all sorts of collateral information.

It's really good to be cooking.

So this is a French study, again, following up a large group number of people over a period of time.

It's called the French Nutrient Santé Cohort.

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Cohort.