Impact of Climate Change on Cancer Burden
The impact of climate change on human health has come to focus in recent years, however very little is known about the effect of climate change on chronic diseases like cancer. We are discussing climate change, the exposures it generates relevant to cancer, the challenges faced to measure this impact and the potential disruption to health systems that are essential for cancer control, with eminent epidemiologist Dr. Robert Hiatt from UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and joining us on the patient panel is melanoma advocate, author, and teacher David Stanley.