Originally published with transcript at https://www.nickfabbri.com/bloom/paulmonkoncancer

In this podcast, Nick and Paul discuss:

Paul's cancer journey and the odds of his survival

The development of immunotherapy and other revolutionary cancer treatments

Cancer research and the medical establishment

The examples and books of Jimmy Stynes, Lance Armstrong, and Christopher Hitchens

Reflections on mortality, death, and existential meaning and purpose

The impact of Paul’s cancer journey on his relationships

The 2016 International Cancer Conference in Brazil, and conversations with Dr. David Speakman, Chief Medical Officer of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Reframing one’s priorities after living with cancer

Dr Paul Monk is a poet, polymath and highly regarded Australian public intellectual. He has written an extraordinary range of books, from Sonnets to a Promiscuous Beauty (which resides in former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s library), to reflective essays on the riches of Western civilization in The West in a Nutshell, to a prescient 2005 treatise on the rise of China in Thunder from the Silent Zone: Rethinking China. 

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