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Be Well: When Cancer Findings Motivate The Researcher To Change

Healthy foods at the Gathering Place during a breast cancer support group meeting.
A healthy lifestyle with plant-based foods believed to help prevent cancer.

Over the past several weeks in our Be Well series on cancer, we've had stories on cancer research, treatments, side effects... all featuring interviews with doctors and researchers in the field who tell us what the science shows. ideastream health reporter Sarah Jane Tribble shares some of the backstories of these doctors and how all that research actually affects the people who make the discoveries.

Listen to  "Be Well: Preventing Cancer, One Spoonful At at Time," by ideastream's Sarah Jane Tribble. Original air date on WCPN, March 10, 2015.

Read about  Dr. Li Li's research on breast cancer and sleep.

Read about Dr. Harold Varmus in  "The Condition Cancer Research is In," New York Times, March 30, 2015.