Breast Cancer, Asthma and COPD, Statins for Seniors and Improving Primary Care for Chronic Conditions

TT HealthWatch - Oct. 2, 2026
Elizabeth Tracey and Dr. Richard Lange

This week's topics include a treatment for advanced breast cancer, a new target for asthma and COPD, statins for older people, and improving primary care for those with chronic health conditions.

Program notes:

0:33 Statins for older people without CVD

1:34 Followed for six years

2:34 Aged to 70 without CVD

3:00 Improving primary care for folks with chronic conditions

4:00 70,000 respondents

5:00 Long term relationship with a primary care provider

6:00 Continuity and coordination can be delivered at scale

7:09 Treating advanced breast cancer

8:10 Mutation in estrogen receptor

9:12 Targeting specific mutations

10:00 A new target for managing asthma and COPD

11:00 Healthy volunteers and patients with asthma

12:00 Typically treated with immunosuppression

13:05 End

 

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