Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcast
1) A combination of strategies help determine best cancer treatment strategies, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Genetics are foundational to much of cancer treatment, and now both the environment surrounding the tumor as well as analysis of cancer cells shed into the blood may also be used to inform treatment a...Show More
2) How does radiation benefit the body’s response to cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Radiation of a primary tumor can activate immune cells around distant metastases, a study by Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Anagnostou says the mec...Show More
3) What does the area around a tumor tell us about response to treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports
How tumors respond to treatment has to do with both their internal and external environments, research by Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Anagnostou...Show More
4) Assessing individual cancer characteristics is needed to determine resistance to new types of therapies, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Immunotherapies hold enormous promise for treating cancers of various types, but the bad news is that while many patients may initially respond many will also become resistant. Valsamo Anagnostou, a c...Show More
5) Do you understand what ‘risk’ means when it comes to cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
When people are diagnosed with a cancer many questions come up, among them what might have led to the development of cancer, especially with regard to behaviors the person adopted that increased their...Show More
6) Which type of vitamin is best? Your pharmacist knows, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Do you take vitamins? While the evidence is conflicting on whether they are beneficial for health the majority of US adults do take them, and frequently are confused over which ones are best. Pharmaci...Show More
7) The breadth of expertise of your pharmacist is available to you, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Pharmacists are increasingly being called upon to take on additional healthcare tasks, from administering immunizations to reconciling medications to dispensing advice along with prescription and over...Show More
8) What will loss of insurance do to people who already can’t afford their medicines? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Only one-quarter of people who could benefit from a cholesterol lowering drug were taking one, a recent study by Caleb Alexander, a drug efficacy expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Ale...Show More
9) Could more targeted screening be helpful in colorectal cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
A new blood test used to screen people for colorectal cancer just isn’t ready to replace colonoscopy or fecal immunochemical tests, since these are capable of detecting early lesions that respond best...Show More
10) Are there aspects to blood testing for colorectal cancer that undermine screening? Elizabeth Tracey reports
A new blood test for colorectal cancer finds advanced cancers well, but William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says when compared to the gold standard colonoscopy, or e...Show More