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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 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 Kimmel in DC podcast, Dr Ashwani Rajput and Dr Maureen O'Donnell discuss the surgery options for patients diagnosed with breast cancer.
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) […]
In this Cancer Matters podcast, Dr Bill Nelson and Dr Cynthia Zahnow discuss how her experience as a breast cancer survivor informs her research into examining a potential link between alcohol consumption and breast cancer.
In the next On Target podcast, Dr Akila Viswanathan talks with Dr Sara Alcorn about the multidisciplinary approach to treating breast cancer and how the use of radiation is becoming more personalized to each patient.
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
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 […]
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 […]