Cancer Matters

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CT Scans Reduce Lung Cancer Deaths by 20 Percent

Posted by admin | Prevention/Screening

Starting in 2002, more than 50,000 current and former smokers aged 55 to 74 signed up for the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) at Johns Hopkins and more than 30 other sites across the nation.  The trial was to last 10 years, but eight years into the study, leaders of the trial found their results […]

Nov 4, 2010 5 comments

Completion of Treatment — Time to Celebrate?

Posted by Elissa Bantug | Issues & Perspectives

This post is written by Lillie Shockney, the Administrative Director of the Johns Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center and a two-time breast cancer survivor. Completing Treatment - Time to Celebrate? You'd think so. You've been through surgery, perhaps chemo and radiation, maybe on or completing hormonal therapy and you are finally "done" breast cancer treatment. So ready […]

Nov 3, 2010 No comments

Let’s Beat Pancreatic Cancer Together

Posted by admin | Research

The following blog post was submitted and written by representatives at the Lustgarten Foundation.  Johns Hopkins and the Sanger Institute published two papers in the journal Nature describing how pancreatic cancer develops far more slowly than once thought.  Major media outlets covering the news included The New York Times, Bloomberg News, Reuters, CBS News, Science News, […]

Oct 29, 2010 No comments

Top Cancer Research News: October

Posted by admin | Research

In this month's Cancer News Review podcast, Cancer Center director Bill Nelson reviews top headlines in cancer research.  Each of the studies discussed here were published in the Oct. 2 issue of the Lancet.

Oct 27, 2010 3 comments

Finding the Spark Again After Cancer

Posted by Elissa Bantug | Issues & Perspectives, Survivorship

One of the most common complaints I hear from cancer survivors is a change in their sex life.  Within days after returning home from my mastectomy, I attempted to be intimate with my husband even though I had yet to regain the ability to dress or shower myself with medical drains still attached. I thought […]

Oct 19, 2010 No comments

Give Cancer a Red Card

Posted by admin | Issues & Perspectives, Uncategorized

The final score was 3-0 last night at my son's soccer game -- his team won, but not because they have a single star that makes all the goals; rather, they worked together to make a collective effort in winning the game. The soccer community is now rallying their global fans and participants in a match against the […]

Oct 15, 2010 No comments

Putting Cancer in Its Place

Posted by Elissa Bantug | Issues & Perspectives, Patient Stories, Survivorship

In a conversation with a patient recently, she said to me, “I am a mother and a wife, but when I think of what describes me most, it is that I am a cancer survivor.  Having had cancer is the first thing I think about when I get up in the morning, the last thing I […]

Oct 12, 2010 No comments

Cancer Survivorship

Posted by Elissa Bantug | Issues & Perspectives, Patient Stories, Survivorship

Defining when a patient becomes a cancer “survivor” seems to vary depending on whom you ask.  Some people say that this term can be applied after a patient has shown no evidence of disease for five years; others assert that survivor is a status achieved following the patient’s completion of all recommended treatments and surgeries.  […]

Oct 7, 2010 1 comment

Construction Workers Don Pink Hard Hats

Posted by admin | Issues & Perspectives, Uncategorized

Of all the hard hat colors to choose from, you wouldn't think construction workers would opt to wear pink ones.  But that's just what they did at Johns Hopkins to honor breast cancer awareness month.  Construction employees of EMCOR Group, Inc., a mechanical and electrical construction company, who are working at Hopkins on what is believed to be the largest hospital […]

Oct 5, 2010 1 comment

What Matters to You?

Posted by admin | Issues & Perspectives, Research

It was the culmination of years of effort by many scientists and physicians and the bravery of patients to try something new that has brought some steady hope in an experimental therapy called epigenetics.

Oct 1, 2010 No comments

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