Nearly 19,000 de-identified genomic records from cancer patients treated by an international group of hospitals, including the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, have been collected… Read More »Scientists let GENIE data “out of the bottle”
Immunotherapy has become one of the hottest areas of cancer research, and the number of cancers successfully treated by immunotherapy is growing. Nearing the end… Read More »5 Things We Learned About Immunotherapy This Year
A ceremony was held yesterday at the White House to sign the 21st Century Cures Act, which authorizes $4.8 billion in National Institutes of Health funding… Read More »President Obama Signs 21st Century Cures Act
In a head-to-head comparison between the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab and standard chemotherapy as a first-line therapy for advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer, patients taking pembrolizumab had… Read More »Immunotherapy drug staves off lung cancer better than chemo in some newly treated patients
The University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy have published a pair of studies looking at biomarkers involved in the immune… Read More »Studies track how the immune system responds to tumors
Endocrinologists, or hormone doctors, are on your lung cancer treatment team “if it's clinically appropriate for them to be a part of it,” says radiation… Read More »Do you have endocrinologists on the lung cancer team?
“Every clinical trial is done in a way to try to get a very homogenous group of patients, so we can better draw conclusions about… Read More »How do you decide if a patient is right for a clinical trial at Hopkins?
Many lung cancer patients are concerned about the side effects lung cancer radiation can cause, such as heart or kidney damage, or fertility problems, says… Read More »What side effects can lung cancer radiation cause?
This blog post was written by Kristina Baum, who has melanoma and is participating in a clinical trial on immunotherapy at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel… Read More »A perspective on an immunotherapy clinical trial
“The best way to prevent lung cancer now is to make sure you're not currently smoking,” says Russell K. Hales, M.D. Hales, who is a… Read More »I’m a former smoker. Is there a way to prevent lung cancer now?