{"id":223028,"date":"2024-12-23T08:45:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=223028"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:47:10","slug":"podcast-expertise-in-treating-advanced-melanoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/12\/podcast-expertise-in-treating-advanced-melanoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Expertise in Treating Advanced Melanoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When melanoma isn\u2019t treated early, it can spread beyond the skin and turn from a dermatology problem to something that requires oncology expertise. That\u2019s when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Callahan-Margaret\"><strong>Dr. Margaret Callahan<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/PHAN-GIAO\"><strong>Dr. Giao Phan<\/strong><\/a> get involved. Callahan, a medical oncologist, and Phan, a surgical oncologist, arrived in 2023 to build an advanced melanoma program at UConn Health.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cf0\"><blockquote>\n  <p>The place that Dr. Phan and I get involved is when there\u2019s a real risk that some melanoma cells have broken off and traveled somewhere else in the body. <cite> &#8212 Dr. Margaret Callahan<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When melanoma has spread, they can use targeted therapies and even the body\u2019s own immune system to fight the cancer, as they explain in the latest <em>UConn Health Pulse<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<h3>Listen now:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none;min-width: min(100%, 430px);height: 150px\" title=\"Expertise in Treating Advanced Melanoma\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=q3nr4-1780da9-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=1&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=3267a3\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drs. Margaret Callahan\u00a0and Giao Phan explain the advanced melanoma program they lead at UConn Health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":158112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2230,2231,1868,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-223028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancer","category-health-well-being","category-meds","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 08:47:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223031,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223028\/revisions\/223031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/158112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223028"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=223028"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=223028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}