In our latest podcast, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Director Bill Nelson speaks with Dr Denis Wirtz, the Vice Provost of Research at Johns Hopkins University, about the importance of team science and collaboration in cancer research. In this preview, Dr Wirtz discusses the benefits of programs that brings people's research together in problem solving. To(...)
Music Video Features Johns Hopkins Pediatric Oncology Patient to Raise Awareness
Posted by | Childhood Cancer, Patient StoriesA collaboration between a Johns Hopkins pediatric patient, a rising indie alt/pop group and an organization dedicated to spreading the medicine of music created a new music video for an original song, “No Giving Up.” East of Eli, fronted by singer/songwriter/actor Nathan West and his wife and actress Chyler Leigh, joined musical forces with Grammy-winning(...)
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Immunotherapy Experts Named Bloomberg~Kimmel Professors
Posted by | ResearchThree Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers were recognized as the first Bloomberg~Kimmel professors in cancer immunology during a ceremony at Johns Hopkins. The event marked the beginning of the Bloomberg~Kimmel Professorships program, and the three scientists were recognized for their work in precision immunotherapy, the bacterial contributions in the microbiome, and how targeting the(...)
Cancer Matters With Dr. Bill Nelson – Operating on Spinal Tumors
Posted by | podcastIn this podcast, Kimmel Cancer Center Director Dr Bill Nelson talks to Dr Dan Sciubba, the Director of Spinal Tumor and Spinal Deformity Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, about the surgical removal of tumors on the spine. In this preview, Dr Sciubba describes the team approach to treating spinal tumors. To listen(...)
Cancer Matters with Dr. Bill Nelson – The Rise of Liver and Pancreatic Cancers
Posted by | podcastIn our next podcast, Dr Bill Nelson speaks with Dr Matthew Weiss, the Surgical Director of Johns Hopkins Liver and Pancreatic Cancer Multidisciplinary Clinics, about rise of cases with those types of cancers. In this preview, Dr Weiss describes a clinical trial that seems to be making significant progress for patients using immune therapy. Click(...)
Researchers Advance Role of Circulating Tumor DNA to Detect Early Melanoma Growth, Uncover Treatment Options
Posted by | Research, treatmentResearchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have added to evidence that measuring and monitoring tumor DNA that naturally circulates in the blood of melanoma patients can not only reliably help reveal the early stages of cancer growth and spread but also uncover new treatment options that tumor genetic analysis alone may(...)
NSCLC Treatment Gets Specific with Next-Gen Sequencing, Cell-Free DNA
Posted by | ResearchDuring a presentation on advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Ben Levy, M.D., a thoracic medical oncologist and the clinical director of medical oncology for the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital, said there is a new opportunity for clinicians to be more specific when targeting mutations in those cancer patients.(...)
Cancer Matters with Dr. Bill Nelson – 45th Anniversary
Posted by | podcast2018 marks the 45th anniversary of the founding of our Cancer Center. In our latest podcast, Dr Bill Nelson talks with Sharon Krumm, Director of Nursing Administration, and Senior Science Writer Valerie Mehl about some of the most notable achievements of the past 45 years. In this preview, they discuss the opening of the new(...)
Benefits of Immunotherapy in Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Posted by | Issues & Perspectives, Research, SurvivorshipJulie Brahmer, M.D., is an active clinical leader in the treatment of lung cancer and mesothelioma. As the director of the Thoracic Oncology Program and professor of oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, her research and clinical practice focuses on the development of new therapies for the treatment and prevention(...)
Cancer Matters with Dr. Bill Nelson – Bladder Cancer in Women
Posted by | podcastIn our next podcast, Dr Bill Nelson talks with Dr Jean Hoffman-Censits and Dr Armine Smith, from the Johns Hopkins Greenberg Bladder Cancer Institute, about the complications that arise in diagnosing and treating bladder cancer in women. In this preview, they explain why women often learn about their diagnosis much later than men do.(...)