Perspectives from those who live it every day.
In the latest Cancer Matters podcast, Dr Bill Nelson speaks with Dr Patrick Forde about the results of a clinical trial that show pairing immunotherapy treatments with chemotherapy greatly increases survival in patients with lung cancer. Learn more about the Checkmate-816 Trial here. Read more about the impact of the study here.
Dr Bill Nelson speaks with Dr Channing Paller from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington DC and Dr Heather Cheng from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center about the PROMISE prostate cancer registry. The PROMISE registry is studying the role of genetics in determining health outcomes for patients with […]
In this Cancer Matters podcast, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Director, Dr Bill Nelson, talks with singer and songwriter Martha Wainwright about her career, her mother's battle with sarcoma and the Stand Up To Cancer Kate McGarrigle Fund Music As Healing Program. The grant program is an initiative from Stand Up To Cancer Canada that […]
In this Cancer Matters podcast, Dr Bill Nelson speaks to Dr Kathy Ruble about her work on cognitive development with survivors of pediatric cancers.
In this Cancer Matters podcast, Dr Bill Nelson speaks with Dr Vered Stearns, Dr Wen Shen and patient advocate Kate Pisano about the Johns Hopkins Women's Wellness Program that helps guide women through their cancer treatment, recovery, and care continuum. For more information about the program, email womenswellness@jhmi.edu.
In this Cancer Matters podcast, Dr Bill Nelson talks with Author Sam Apple about his new book, Ravenous: Otto Warburg, The Nazis, And The Search For The Cancer-Diet Connection. For more information about Sam's book, visit: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50355140-ravenous
In this Cancer Matters podcast, Dr Bill Nelson talks with Mike Armstrong, Dr Julie Brahmer, and breast cancer survivor and advocate Christine Hodgdon to discuss Mike's book, Cancer with Hope, and about the promise of future treatments provided through clinical trials.
In this Cancer Matters podcast, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Director Dr Bill Nelson speaks with Trey Mancini of the Baltimore Orioles and Dr Nilofer Azad about Trey's treatment, and return to baseball, following a diagnosis of colon cancer.
Dr Bill Nelson speaks with Mike Armstrong and Eric Vohr, co-authors of the new book, Cancer with Hope, along with oncology research nurse Anna Ferguson about the role hope plays in each individual cancer diagnosis. Learn more about the book here: jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/cancer-hope
Dr Bill Nelson and Dr Elizabeth Jaffee discuss the creation of Break Through Cancer, a new collaborative partnership between The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, The Dana Farber Cancer Institute, The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that will help accelerate research, clinical […]