Healthy living was the theme of June 18th’s Day at the Market event held at Northeast Market on Monument Street in East Baltimore. The bimonthly event brings together Johns Hopkins nurses and other clinicians, safety experts, and others to interact and to share information with Baltimore citizens on simple things they can do to prevent(...)
Prevention/Screening
Gene Friday Series: Prevention is Cure
Posted by Valerie Matthews-Mehl | Prevention/ScreeningThis 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 prevention. He doesn’t expect to prevent cancers from occurring, but by using cancer genome sequencing, he believes there is an opportunity to prevent cancer deaths. He envisions safe, simple, and(...)
Aug 2, 2013 2 comments
Nine Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Cancer
Posted by Vanessa Wasta | Prevention/Screening-This post was written by Stephanie Price. Cancer formation can come from the foods we eat, the air we breathe or the medicine we take. While there is no magical pill that can prevent you from getting cancer, Deborah Armstrong, associate professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, shares nine ways(...)
Aug 1, 2013 7 comments
Lung cancer screening recommendations
Posted by Vanessa Wasta | Prevention/Screening--This post was written by lung cancer expert Dr. Phillip Dennis. Lung cancer is the most deadly cancer in the United States and will kill over 200,000 Americans this year. Deaths from lung cancer exceed the number of deaths from breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer combined. The high mortality of lung cancer is(...)
Jul 29, 2013 3 comments
Study Results Reassure Spouses/Partners of Patients with HPV-Related Oral Cancers
Posted by Vanessa Wasta | Prevention/Screening, ResearchDr. Gypsyamber D'Souza has been a steady presence at Johns Hopkins head and neck cancer clinics. You'd spot her carrying an iPad survey and containers that collect oral rinse samples. Today, the long-awaited results of her research were presented at a press conference at the American Society for Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago. D'Souza's multicenter, pilot(...)
Jun 1, 2013 3 comments
Top Three Lifestyle Changes to Prevent Cancer
Posted by Valerie Matthews-Mehl | Prevention/ScreeningImportant Tips from Cancer Prevention and Control Expert Dr. Elizabeth Platz Focus on changing your lifestyle behaviors where we have evidence of a strong link. Often these lifestyle changes can also reduce your risk for other major chronic diseases, like heart disease and diabetes. You might as well get the most from your efforts, so(...)
Jul 27, 2012 6 comments
Preventing the Return of Breast Cancer: Recipe for a New Era
Posted by Vanessa Wasta | Prevention/Screening, Survivorship***The following post was written by Dr. John Fetting at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. After 30 years as a breast cancer medical oncologist, I have come to believe that we are too focused on trying to cure breast cancer and not focused enough on preventing it. Until recently, treating breast cancer after it(...)
Jul 24, 2012 4 comments
Sequencing Our Genes: The Promise of the Cancer Genome
Posted by Valerie Matthews-Mehl | Prevention/Screening, ResearchThis 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. While cancer is not usually written in the DNA we are born with, the story of each individual cancer is contained within the unique and different DNA of the cancer(...)
Jul 6, 2012 No comments
Sequencing Our Genes: What it Does and Doesn’t Do
Posted by Vanessa Wasta | Prevention/ScreeningThis is the second blog in a three-part series. As technology that makes it possible to quickly sequence an individual’s whole genome becomes increasingly more available and affordable, people have begun to wonder about its ability to predict diseases a person is likely to develop. If I had my whole genome sequenced, could it reveal whether(...)
Jun 5, 2012 No comments
Sequencing our Genes: Is Cancer Written in our DNA?
Posted by Valerie Matthews-Mehl | Prevention/ScreeningThis is the first blog in a three-part series about Genome Sequencing and Predicting Cancer. Technology called next generation sequencing can be used to reveal an individual’s complete and entire DNA (whole genome). Right now, it costs about $5,000 to sequence an individual’s whole genome, but the price tag is decreasing rapidly. With its increasing(...)
May 16, 2012 No comments