This blog is part 1 of 4 of our “Cancer-Free Mondays” series about how the Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund is helping Maryland Citizens. In 1990,… Read More »Cancer-Free Mondays: Maryland and Johns Hopkins – A Partnership that Works for Maryland Citizens
I heard a story about actors Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Tom Hanks forming a colonoscopy slumber party of sorts. They get together at one… Read More »Do You Have a Cancer Screening Buddy?
This blog is the final post of our four-part "Gene" Fridays series on cancer genetics. The dream Dr. Bert Vogelstein and his team hope to realize is… Read More »Gene Friday Series: Prevention is Cure
This blog is part 3 of 4 of our "Gene" Fridays series on cancer genetics. To help people understand the complexity of cancer and the series… Read More »Gene Friday Series: The Encyclopedia Analogy
This blog is part 2 of 4 of our "Gene" Fridays series on cancer genetics. Pancreas cancer was one of the first cancer genomes Dr. Bert Vogelstein… Read More »Gene Friday Series – No Two Cancers are the Same
This blog is part 1 of 4 of our "Gene" Fridays series on cancer genetics. There is no one better suited to explain the intricacies… Read More »“Gene” Friday Series: Understanding Cancer Genetics
Kimmel Cancer Center employees at the Living Classrooms Foundation A “Kimmel in the Community” team spent the afternoon on May 29, 2013, at the Living… Read More »Kimmel in the Community
Over the last thirty years, about every decade I’ve found myself in a cancer center waiting room--first in 1984 with my husband, in 1999 with… Read More »Waiting Room Observations
Important Tips from Cancer Prevention and Control Expert Dr. Elizabeth Platz Focus on changing your lifestyle behaviors where we have evidence of a strong link.… Read More »Top Three Lifestyle Changes to Prevent Cancer
This is the final blog in a three-part series about Genome Sequencing and Predicting Cancer. Just as every person is genetically unique, so is every cancer.… Read More »Sequencing Our Genes: The Promise of the Cancer Genome