The fascinating links between sleep-disordered breathing and cancer
Melissa Bates, PhD, describes the \u201cfascinating twist of going from observation to molecular and cellular manipulation in the lab to a clinical setting\u201d as she and her team uncover exciting links between sleep apnea and multiple myeloma.\n\nDr. Bates is Assistant Professor of Health and Human Physiology and Pediatric Neonatology and Director of the Leukemia Molecular Epidemiological Resource at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa.\n\n2:51 \u2013 How she and her research team are dealing with the pandemic\n\n4:32 \u2013 On sleep-disordered breathing and sleep apnea\u2026\n\n6:46 \u2013 \u2026and how it relates to cancer risk and mortality\n\n13:17 \u2013 On how she began researching multiple myeloma and why it\u2019s so difficult to treat\n\n17:30 \u2013 The link between obesity and both multiple myeloma and sleep-disordered breathing \n\n20:09 \u2013 How experiments by Dr. Bates and her lab yielded exciting links between sleep apnea and multiple myeloma\n\n23:11 \u2013 How 90% of patients with multiple myeloma had sleep apnea\n\n25:12 \u2013 The potential of sleep-disordered breathing as a therapeutic target for multiple myeloma and other cancers\n\n26:44 \u2013 The impact of ACS funding on her career\n\n28:28 \u2013 Her message for cancer patients and caregivers