Our collaborative team of scientists, physicians and allied health workers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center specialize in translating science learned in the laboratory into exceptional clinical care. The Skip Viragh Center for Pancreas Cancer Clinical Research and Patient Care is a world leader in the diagnosis and management of pancreatic cancer, leading all […]
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The Future of Pancreatic Cancer Treatments
Posted by Larry Frum | Issues & Perspectives, pancreatic cancer, Prevention/Screening, Research, treatmentJust eight percent of people with pancreatic cancer live for five years after their diagnosis. Why is this cancer so deadly and where are advances in treatment headed? Elizabeth Jaffee, M.D., deputy director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, describes explains in a 2018 interview on WYPR. http://www.wypr.org/post/why-pancreatic-cancer-so-deadly
Mar 8, 2019 No comments

Jaffee looks to the future of checkpoint immunotherapy for cancer treatment
Posted by Larry Frum | Issues & Perspectives, precision medicine, Prevention/Screening, treatmentCombinations strategies involving checkpoint immunotherapies were approved as first-line options in two cancer types and showed promise in clinical trials for several hard-to-treat cancers. Important advances were also made with respect to immune-related biomarkers, cellular immunotherapies, and personalized vaccines. Elizabeth Jaffee, M.D., deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, is focusing her research […]
Jan 28, 2019 No comments
Researchers Advance Role of Circulating Tumor DNA to Detect Early Melanoma Growth, Uncover Treatment Options
Posted by Larry Frum | 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 […]
Nov 26, 2018 No comments

A Look Inside the Kimmel Cancer Center’s Cancer Medicine Cabinet
Posted by Valerie Matthews-Mehl | Issues & Perspectives, Patient Stories, Prevention/Screening, Research, treatmentRead the latest issue of Promise & Progress featuring research advances in cancer drug discovery and development, promising new cancer drugs, patient stories and more. From scientific meetings to our own dinner tables, conversations about better treatments for cancer are among the most frequently discussed health care topics. Everyone wants them—the doctors and scientists who […]
May 8, 2018 No comments

“SEEK” and You May Find Cancer
Posted by Valerie Matthews-Mehl | precision medicine, Prevention/Screening, Research, treatmentThe team of cancer genetics experts that deciphered the genetic blueprints of cancer, have developed two new screening tests that have the promise to detect cancer in an early and curable stage. As the names of the tests indicate PapSEEK and UroSEEK, they seek out and find genetic evidence of cancer by detecting DNA released […]
Mar 23, 2018 5 comments

Geriatric Oncology: Cancer Care Coming of Age?
Posted by Valerie Matthews-Mehl | caregiving, palliative care, treatmentThe American Cancer Society forecasts that nearly 1.7 million new cancer cases (more than 4,600 each day) and nearly 596,000 cancer deaths will occur in the United States in one year. An emerging driver of the cancer epidemic is the aging of the population. Read Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson’s editorial in Cancer Today, […]
Feb 7, 2018 No comments

New Test Detects Eight Cancer Types
Posted by Valerie Matthews-Mehl | Prevention/Screening, Research, treatmentMay make the most feared disease a little less scary Cancer is scary. Part of the reason—maybe even the main reason—cancer is so scary, is that it seems to come out of nowhere and changes lives in the blink of an eye. We’re feeling fine, but under the surface, hidden within the DNA of our […]
Jan 18, 2018 No comments

Palliative Care: Putting a Cloak on Cancer
Posted by Valerie Matthews-Mehl | caregiving, palliative care, treatmentPalliative care addresses symptoms and distress accompanying serious illnesses. The field is emerging as a vital medical specialty in the multidisciplinary treatment of cancer. Better access to expert palliative care for all cancer patients must be a priority. Read Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson’s editorial in Cancer Today, a publication of the American Association […]
Jan 16, 2018 No comments

Cancer Interception: Kimmel Experts Part of New Stand Up To Cancer Project
Posted by Michelle Potter | Research, treatmentStand Up To Cancer launched four new teams aimed at detecting and treating cancer in its earliest stages. Lung cancer expert Julie Brahmer, M.D., is the lead investigator for Johns Hopkins for lung cancer studies based at the Kimmel Cancer Center Thoracic Center of Excellence she directs. Victor Velculescu, M.D., Ph.D., an expert in the […]
Dec 8, 2017 No comments