“It used to take a month or more for a newly diagnosed lung cancer patient to hop from one specialist to another to put a… Read More »Johns Hopkins organizes care teams to speed treatment plans for lung cancer patients
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Medical teams at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center on the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus “have to fight two battles in order to control the… Read More »“We fight two battles to control lung cancer”
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Thousands of cancer researchers are meeting at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2015 Annual Meeting where the first research abstracts highlighted to the… Read More »Cancer Research Meeting Highlights Progress
There is good news today for lung cancer patients. The FDA has announced that it has approved expansion of the immunotherapy drug nivolumab (Opdivo) for… Read More »Immunotherapy drug approved for lung cancer
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*This post was written by Marie Borsellino, B.S.N., R.N., O.C.N., oncology nurse navigator for the Managing Cancer at Work Program. In November 2012, the Obama… Read More »Let’s give thanks to caregivers
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