Cancer Matters with Dr Bill Nelson – Women’s Wellness Program
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.
Breast Cancer Cells Can Reprogram Immune Cells To Assist In Metastasis
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators report they have uncovered a new mechanism by which invasive breast cancer cells evade the immune system to metastasize, or spread, to other areas of the body. They propose that therapies targeting this process could be developed to halt or prevent metastasis and reduce breast cancer deaths. Natural killer (NK) […]
Cancer Disparities with Dr Otis Brawley – Breast Cancer Disparities
In our next Cancer Disparities podcast, Dr Otis Brawley, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, talks to Dr Avonne Connor from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about her research into co-morbid conditions and breast cancer disparities. To listen, click here: http://bit.ly/AvonneConnor
Cancer Treatment Without Hair Loss
One evening several years ago, MiKaela Olsen, D.N.P., sat on her porch with a neighbor and spoke firmly and frankly to her as both a friend and a professional. Olsen, a Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center clinical nurse specialist, was concerned. The neighbor, a mother of two young children, had breast cancer and was strongly […]
Giving Patients Better Results With Fewer Treatments
As our knowledge of breast cancer has grown, so have the number of therapy modalities and protocols used to treat this disease, from combinations of chemotherapy to targeted treatments that attack malignant cells carrying specific genetic variations. Overall, these developments have been positive, offering patients more and better options to fight their cancers, says breast […]