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Our guests today are Sam and Meg Lubner. They are cancer doctors, and they are married!

Sam is a hematologist and oncologist at University of Wisconsin Health, and an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health where he directs the Hematology and Medical Oncology fellowship program. He specializes in gastrointestinal malignancies. 

Meg is a professor of radiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in the section of abdominal imaging and intervention. Meg works in the field of radiomics — a field focused on the extraction of quantitative information from diagnostic images — and her research interests include new technology in CT scans — which means using radiation like X-rays for instance to create detailed, cross-sectional images of the body.

In this MINI episode, Sam and Meg talk about the basic science behind how their cancer-fighting tools — imaging and targeted cancer therapies. This basic science is part of the high school science curriculum — the radiation that is part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and the notion that DNA mutates. 

Tune in on Thursday for the full-length interview!

Highlights of the episode:

*Susan introduces Sam and Meg and today’s topic [1:30];

*Meg talks about imaging and how powerful it is as a tool in cancer care [3:25];

*Sam talks about targeted cancer therapy [9:46];

*Meg talks about changes in sampling of tumor tissue and imaging methods to try and maximize capturing the genetic profile of the tumor [13:02]

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