Amanda Aronczyk

Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

Amanda Aronczyk appears in the following:

Why Doctors Are Trying A Skin Cancer Drug To Treat A Brain Tumor

Thursday, March 26, 2015

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit / Paige Cowett : Associate Producer

A drug that's effective in patients with certain forms of melanoma is being tested as a treatment for other cancers whose genetic code contains an identical mutation.

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How 2 Children With Leukemia Helped Transform Its Treatment

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

Cancer treatment for kids has changed dramatically since the 1960s.

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The Two Leukemia Patients Whose Survival Revolutionized Cancer Treatment

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

Early experiments in cancer treatment helped move a common pediatric cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, from a death sentence toward a cure.

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How 2 Children With Leukemia Helped Transform Its Treatment

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

Cancer treatment for kids has changed dramatically since the 1960s. Back then, doctors experimented with approaches that seemed promising but were also potentially toxic. Some survivors look back.

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What Causes Breast Cancer? These Mothers and Daughters May Hold a Clue

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

By Paige Cowett : Associate Producer

Researchers are looking into whether in utero chemical exposure may be linked to breast cancers in women like Jenny Singleton.

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Pregnant, With Cancer

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

By Paige Cowett : Associate Producer / Mary Harris : Co-Host and Health Reporter / Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

When Mary Harris was diagnosed with breast cancer, she gave up on having a second child. Then she found out she was pregnant.

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Cancer Patients And Doctors Struggle To Predict Survival

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

After being diagnosed with cancer, people often ask one question first: "How long do I have?"

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When Your Cancer Doctor Gives You ‘12 Months to Live,’ Here’s What That Really Means

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

A prognosis is not an absolute number. Now doctors are acknowledging just how uncertain the course of an illness can be.

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Cancer Patients And Doctors Struggle To Predict Survival

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

After being diagnosed with cancer, the first question people have is, "How long do I have?" Doctors usually overestimate the time, and patients often don't understand it's a range, not one number.

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For One Child, a Miracle Cancer Drug Is Hard to Come By

Monday, February 09, 2015

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit / Paige Cowett : Associate Producer

Kathy Liu thought she’d found a drug that could cure her 10-year-old son. There was only one problem: she couldn’t get it.

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Son's Rare Cancer Leads Family On Quest For Cure

Monday, February 09, 2015

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

Treating cancer is a race against time.

Every once in a while, there's an experimental drug that's so promising it makes the race even more urgent. Patients and their families plead with pharmaceutical companies to get it before the Food and Drug Administration's approval.

The demand has been particularly high ...

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Son's Rare Cancer Leads Family On Quest For Cure

Monday, February 09, 2015

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit / Paige Cowett : Associate Producer

When a child falls ill with cancer, many of the drugs that might help are either experimental or unapproved for use in kids.

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Poverty Grows in New Jersey

Thursday, September 18, 2014

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

New Jersey is just one of three states that experienced an increase in both the percentage and number of people living in poverty last year.

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More Subway Tunnel Repairs and Closures To Come

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

Just when you started to enjoy the return of the R Train tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn, the "Cranberry Tube" on the A and C line gets ready for repairs.
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Social Smokers, You've Been Warned

Monday, September 15, 2014

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit / Fred Mogul : Healthcare and Medicine Reporter, WNYC News

As the number of NYC smokers continues to tick up, health officials are targeting their latest ads at light smokers.

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R Train Riders Get Back Their Uninterrupted Commute

Sunday, September 14, 2014

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

Repairs to the tunnel are finally done and riders can travel between Brooklyn and Manhattan more easily. 
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New York Debates Whether Housing Counts As Health Care

Monday, July 28, 2014

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

Offering a homeless person an apartment with access to a doctor and social services may be cheaper than paying for emergency room visits and jail or shelter stays. But should Medicaid help with rent?

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Will These Ninth Graders Make the Bronx Healthier?

Friday, June 06, 2014

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

Steering students toward healthcare careers, HERO High aims to tackle several endemic problems in the Bronx: unemployment, poor health, and high college drop-out rates.

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The Bronx's Weight Problem

Thursday, June 05, 2014

By Amanda Aronczyk : Reporter, WNYC Narrative Unit

The Bronx always had a lot of food. It just wasn't good food.

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Supportive Housing as Healthcare

Wednesday, June 04, 2014

As part of WNYC's series exploring health and healthcare in The Bronx, which was recently named the least healthy county in New York State, WNYC reporter Amanda Aronczyk explores whether housing should be considered healthcare. New York State thinks so, and is funding "supportive housing" through the state's Medicaid program. Brenda Rosen, executive director of Common Ground, joins the conversation to discuss Common Ground's role in developing "supportive housing."

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