KERA's Think

Booze causes cancer, too


Listen Later

Earlier this month, then U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called for alcoholic beverages to feature cancer-warning labels similar to the ones on packs of cigarettes. Dr. Ernest Hawk is vice president and head of the division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and holds the T. Boone Pickens Distinguished Chair for Early Prevention of Cancer. He talks with host Krys Boyd about the ways alcohol causes cancer and what your risk might be. And later in the hour, Isabella Cueto, who covers chronic disease for Stat, talks about the fight the alcohol lobby is waging to stop this idea.

Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

KERA's ThinkBy KERA

  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7

4.7

869 ratings


More shows like KERA's Think

View all
On the Media by WNYC Studios

On the Media

9,127 Listeners

On Point | Podcast by WBUR

On Point | Podcast

3,892 Listeners

On Being with Krista Tippett by On Being Studios

On Being with Krista Tippett

10,373 Listeners

Radiolab by WNYC Studios

Radiolab

43,929 Listeners

This American Life by This American Life

This American Life

90,728 Listeners

Fresh Air by NPR

Fresh Air

38,139 Listeners

Freakonomics Radio by Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Freakonomics Radio

32,129 Listeners

To The Best Of Our Knowledge by Wisconsin Public Radio

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

932 Listeners

TED Radio Hour by NPR

TED Radio Hour

22,099 Listeners

The Pulse by WHYY

The Pulse

328 Listeners

Texas Standard by Texas Standard

Texas Standard

246 Listeners

Hidden Brain by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

Hidden Brain

43,482 Listeners

The New Yorker Radio Hour by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

The New Yorker Radio Hour

6,683 Listeners

1A by NPR

1A

4,612 Listeners

Throughline by NPR

Throughline

15,937 Listeners