Perspectives from those who live it every day.
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 Vered Stearns, patient navigator and community outreach advisor Jill Mull, and attorney Leslie Ries about Mike's book, Cancer with Hope, and how focusing on purpose can give patients a sense of direction following a cancer diagnosis.
The V Foundation awarded Dr Vered Stearns and Dr Roisin Connolly a research grant from the Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund for their work on metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer in minority patients. “The challenge is that even within a type of cancer there are multiple subtypes, and it is hard for one investigator […]
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 […]
In this podcast, Dr Bill Nelson speaks with Dr Vered Stearns and Elissa Bantug, Research Program Manager at the Johns Hopkins Breast Center, about how breast cancer care in younger women is different from older women, the resources available to them at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and a grant from the CDC that […]