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. 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 […]
Preventing the Return of Breast Cancer: Recipe for a New Era
Posted by admin | 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
Cancer is a Family Matter: Six Tips to Help Your Kids Cope
Posted by Elissa Bantug | SurvivorshipJust as most patients have concerns and worries when treatment ends, many children also experience uncertainty and fear when a parent finishes treatment for breast cancer. Children may be apprehensive and worry about mom’s long-term health. They may also be sad or resentful at all of the changes at home. It is very common for […]
Jul 9, 2012 No 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
Leroy’s blog
Posted by Evan Lipson | UncategorizedLeroy Sievers was a journalist who traveled the world covering wars, invasions and other conflicts. In 2005, he began a battle of his own against colon cancer. A producer for ABC’s Nightline, Leroy was a gifted communicator. During his illness he appeared in a Discovery Channel documentary with Ted Koppel and wrote a blog for […]
Jun 8, 2012 No comments
Sequencing Our Genes: What it Does and Doesn’t Do
Posted by admin | 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
A Special Camp for Kids
Posted by Michelle Potter | UncategorizedRight about now, parents are scrambling to enroll their kids in various area summer camps. The choices abound, and for many kids, it’s the highlight of their summer. Last year, I had the opportunity to visit our own Camp Sunrise, a week-long summer camp, hosted by Johns Hopkins, for children and young adults with cancer. […]
May 1, 2012 No comments
Tao makes a difference
Posted by Evan Lipson | UncategorizedIn 2009, while studying at Johns Hopkins University, Tao Wang, now age 40, was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer. After diagnosis, she began to focus on helping other patients with some of the questions she, herself, faced during treatment. ”Somehow, I want to make a difference in my life,” she says. Now Wang volunteers […]
Apr 13, 2012 No comments
Cancer News Review
Posted by admin | ResearchCancer headlines this past month included two studies on colonoscopy, a screening tool for colon cancer. The first study looks at the long-term benefits of colonoscopy and found that 50 percent of colon cancer cases were avoided by a single colonscopy. In the Cancer News Review podcast, William Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer […]
Apr 5, 2012 1 comment