{"podcast":{"title":"This Podcast Will Kill You","slug":"this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711","podcast_index_feed_id":226711,"rss_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/e0709a39-232b-4483-8e4f-b24c0111ae2c/64b4c224-562e-4b2f-9f31-b24c0111ae53/podcast.rss","website_url":"https://www.exactlyrightmedia.com/","image_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/e0709a39-232b-4483-8e4f-b24c0111ae2c/64b4c224-562e-4b2f-9f31-b24c0111ae53/image.jpg?t=1738340415&size=Large","author":"Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts","episode_count":288,"summary":"This podcast might not actually kill you, but Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke cover so many things that can. In each episode, they tackle a different topic, teaching listeners about the biology, history, and epidemiology of a different disease or medical mystery. They do the scientific research, so you don’t have to. Since 2017, Erin and Erin have explored chronic and infectious diseases, medications, poisons, viruses, bacteria and scientific discoveries. They’ve researched public health subjects including plague, Zika, COVID-19, lupus, asbestos, endometriosis and more. Each episode is accompanied by a creative quarantini cocktail recipe and a non-alcoholic placeborita. Erin Welsh, Ph.D. is a co-host of the This Podcast Will Kill You. She is a disease ecologist and epidemiologist and works full-time as a science communicator through her work on the podcast. Erin Allmann Updyke, MD, Ph.D. is a co-host of This Podcast Will Kill You. She’s an epidemiologist and disease ecologist currently in the final stretch of her family medicine residency program. This Podcast Will Kill You is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 202 Cancer Part 1: What is it?","slug":"ep-202-cancer-part-1-what-is-it","published_at":"2026-03-03T08:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-202-cancer-part-1-what-is-it","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711","url":"https://omny.fm/shows/this-podcast-will-kill-you/ep-202-cancer-part-1-what-is-it","audio_url":"https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/e0709a39-232b-4483-8e4f-b24c0111ae2c/1aa8aa9c-e325-4c45-937f-b3f5013b9c88/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=64b4c224-562e-4b2f-9f31-b24c0111ae53","summary":"Cancer has touched every one of us in some capacity, and learning of a diagnosis inspires many more questions than it answers. In this four-part series on cancer, we aim to lay a foundation of knowledge that will help make sense of this multifaceted disease. We begin our four-part series on cancer by asking a deceptively simple question: what is cancer? As we’ll discover over the course of these episodes, there is not one answer but many. After all, cancer is not one disease but many. In this first episode, we examine the clinical definitions of cancer - when someone receives a cancer diagnosis, how is that determined, and what does that mean? Viewing that question through a historical lens reveals our changing understanding of cancer and how that knowledge filters into the public perception of this disease. With cancer diagnoses on the rise, it’s tempting to label cancer a disease of the 20th or 21st centuries. But is that the case? Tune in to find out. Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/3WwtIAu See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.","meta_description":"Cancer has touched every one of us in some capacity, and learning of a diagnosis inspires many more questions than it answers. In this four-part series on…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5780,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/episodes/ep-202-cancer-part-1-what-is-it/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-202-cancer-part-1-what-is-it.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}