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James Welsh

James Welsh

Dr. James S. Welsh, MS, MD, FACRO — radiation oncologist, Professor and Director of Translational & Clinical Research at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and Chief of Radiation Oncology at Edward Hines Jr VA Hospital, author of 'Sharks Get Cancer, Mole Rats Don't' and 'Space Radiation'.

Jul 30, 2026

9:37
But that, you know, kind of reduced the overall treatment burden using this approach while maintaining the organs at risk constraints despite the complex anatomy from what I mentioned earlier from the left hip prosthesis and the altered pelvic anatomy.
9:55
If I might expand on that a little bit, I can say that, of course, we were all aiming for, especially the patient, was aiming for bladder preservation if cystectomy could be avoided.
10:08
So we did a literature review and found that small cell carcinoma of the bladder, like small cell lung cancer, is exquisitely radiation sensitive.
10:19
It also responds very well to chemotherapy.
10:22
The typical cisplatin etoposide regimen should really do a number on this cancer.
10:28
And in fact, that's what happened.
10:30
We learned that cystectomy is not inevitable with either transitional cell carcinoma, but especially not with small cell carcinoma.
14:43
I'll let Dr. Walsh answer this one first since he has a practice.
35:04
Is that fair? There's some correlation or connection with black holes and gamma rays?
35:09
Yes, that's the understanding at this time.
35:14
Gamma ray bursts are phenomena in which an intense blast of gamma rays is detected in space.
35:25
These were initially discovered during the Vela mission back in the 1960s, where there was a nuclear test ban treaty in place so that exploding nuclear bombs was prohibited and there was a verification system in place known as VERA to determine if there were any gamma rays coming from covert nuclear explosion operations.
36:00
But Practically every day, gamma rays were being detected.
36:06
They were not coming from the Earth's surface, however.
36:10
They were coming from outer space.

7 MINS LATER

43:17
Could you briefly talk about that as well as storm shelters and something I found fascinating again, radiotrophic fungi, if I have that right?

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