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Understanding the stage of lung cancer disease is vital in understanding how best to treat a patient, says Russell K. Hales, M.D. Hales, who is a radiation oncologist at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center on the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus, says there are four broad stages of lung cancer. He gives patients a way […]
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Medical teams at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center on the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus “have to fight two battles in order to control the cancer,” says radiation oncologist says Russell K. Hales, M.D. “The first is the local disease. A lung tumor is problematic, because as it grows, it can cause shortness of breath, […]
“When we think about lung cancer, we usually think of it being associated with people who smoke,” says Russell K. Hales, M.D. “But, in fact, non-smoking associated lung cancer is common as well”. In fact, if non-smoking associated lung cancer were its own category, it would rank in the top ten for cancer related death […]
There is good news today for lung cancer patients. The FDA has announced that it has approved expansion of the immunotherapy drug nivolumab (Opdivo) for certain lung cancer patients. Julie Brahmer, M.D., oncologist at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and director of its Thoracic Oncology Program, is one of the leaders of the initial, […]
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*This post was written by Marie Borsellino, B.S.N., R.N., O.C.N., oncology nurse navigator for the Managing Cancer at Work Program. Cigarette smoking is the most important risk factor in the development of lung cancer. It is estimated that as many as 90 percent of lung cancer diagnoses could be prevented if cigarette smoking were eliminated. […]
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--This post was written by lung cancer expert Dr. Phillip Dennis. Lung cancer is the most deadly cancer in the United States and will kill over 200,000 Americans this year. Deaths from lung cancer exceed the number of deaths from breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer combined. The high mortality of lung cancer is […]
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Recent news of the full results of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) published in the New England Journal of Medicine underscores the heavy toll that lung cancer takes on many lives. It's still the deadliest of all cancers. For Phyllis Curtis, who had enrolled in the trial at Johns Hopkins, the trial and screening […]
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Three stories top the list of major developments in cancer research during the past month. Listen to these topics discussed in the most recent Cancer News Review podcast. First, to treat or not to treat is the question for low-risk prostate cancer. Whether to give aggressive treatments for low-risk cancer contained within the prostate is […]
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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 […]
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