Read the latest issue of Promise & Progress featuring research advances in cancer drug discovery and development, promising new cancer drugs, patient stories and more.… Read More »A Look Inside the Kimmel Cancer Center’s Cancer Medicine Cabinet
The good news is that there is an ongoing 1.5 percent annual decline in cancer death rates. The more troubling news is that cancer does… Read More »Differences and Disparities in Cancer
It’s Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, so we wanted to gather our best Kimmel Cancer Center resources for you. Learn more about cancer vaccines and other… Read More »Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Social Security pays benefits for a medical condition that is expected to last for at least a year, or may result in death. Supplemental Security… Read More »Do you qualify for Social Security disability as a cancer patient? 5 tests
Breaking news today as, for the first time, a drug has been FDA-approved for cancer based on disease genetics rather than type. Developed from 30… Read More »Historic cancer drug approval has roots at Johns Hopkins and its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute laboratories and clinics
Patients and doctors received news this week of the FDA’s approval of the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab in combination with platinum doublet chemotherapy as first-line therapy for… Read More »Lung cancer immunotherapy options expand
The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center joined all of the nation's cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute in endorsing human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination… Read More »Kimmel Cancer Center Joins Nation’s Cancer Centers in Supporting HPV Vaccination
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?
I never thought I’d be exposed to such a wide variety of expert musicians and performers working as a communications coordinator in the Cancer Center. Through… Read More »The Healing Power of Music