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Cancer

A woman in a wheelchair listens as another woman reads to her from a book

Global health

Johns Hopkins program battles misconceptions about cancer

Published Aug 15, 2017

JHU's Center for Communication Programs and American Cancer Society produce information materials for patients in East Africa

Left image shows orderly structure and brown objects located on the exterior of a cell; right image shows random clusters of brown objects throughout purple cellular structures

Cancer research

Identifying cancerous 'shape shifters'

Published Aug 11, 2017

Scientists from Kimmel Cancer Center identify gene that affects prostate cancer's ability to change shape, squeeze into other organs / Hopkins Medicine

Microscopic view of pink clusters of cells

Cancer research

Slowing cancer's spread

Published May 26, 2017

Johns Hopkins-led team finds promising way to disrupt signals that trigger metastasis

grey balls on a larger orange ball-shaped object

Cancer research

FDA approves cancer drug for personalized immunotherapy approach

Published May 25, 2017

Drug was developed from 30 years of basic research at Johns Hopkins

Cancer research

Study: Random DNA errors cause majority of cancer cases

Published March 23, 2017

Most cancer mutations are due to DNA copying 'mistakes,' not inherited or environmental factors, Hopkins researchers say

Hopkins scientists Cristian Tomasetti (left) and Bert Vogelstein

Behind the science

Hopkins oncologists discuss new cancer study

Published March 23, 2017

Researchers: 'Many people will develop cancer no matter how perfect their behaviors are because of random copying errors'

A cartoon women sits in a stone room while winged breasts fly around her

Q+A

Saints, mastectomies, and the power of myth

Published March 9, 2017

A conversation with filmmaker Bernadette Wegenstein, whose documentary 'The Good Breast' offers an intimate look at surgical breast cancer interventions