Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

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Information can help people decide to forgo cancer screening, Elizabeth Tracey reports

September 12, 2025 • 1 min
When given appropriate information about mammogram screenings, including benefits, harms, and who should consider screening cessation, a cohort of older women largely made rational choices for themselves, a study by Nancy Schoenborn, a geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins, has shown. …

Information can help people decide to forgo cancer screening, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What are the factors that keep people who won’t benefit from health screenings going? Elizabeth Tracey reports

September 12, 2025 • 1 min
Even when people know they can discontinue health screenings for things like cancer they often continue the practice. Nancy Schoenborn, a geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins who studies such behaviors, says recent research on older women and breast cancer screenings …

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How might you feel about being told you can stop cancer screening? Elizabeth Tracey reports

September 12, 2025 • 1 min
Just as there’s a point in life when cancer screenings should begin, so too is there a point at which they can stop. That’s usually because the likelihood that a cancer will kill you in the time you are likely …

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How should preventive healthcare change as people age? Elizabeth Tracey reports

September 12, 2025 • 1 min
Research on when preventive healthcare like cancer screenings should start is abundant, with some guidelines, such as for breast or colorectal cancer, pushing the time to begin screening earlier. But when should such screenings stop? That’s the focus of research …

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How would you feel about being screened for dementia on a regular basis? Elizabeth Tracey reports

September 12, 2025 • 1 min
About half of people who have dementia don’t know it, and those people are at risk for worse outcomes when they’re hospitalized. That’s according to research by Halima Amjad, a geriatrics and dementia expert at Johns Hopkins. Amjad says this …

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People with dementia but no diagnosis can have more problematic hospitalizations, Elizabeth Tracey reports

September 8, 2025 • 1 min
Older people with undiagnosed dementia who get hospitalized experience worse outcomes than other groups of older adults who require hospitalization, a study by Halima Amjad, a dementia and geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Amjad: Focusing on …

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Undiagnosed dementia can be risky, especially when someone is hospitalized, Elizabeth Tracey reports

September 8, 2025 • 1 min
People who have dementia frequently aren’t diagnosed, and when such a person is hospitalized they are at much higher risk for poorer outcomes. That’s the focus of research by Halima Amjad, a geriatrics and dementia expert at Johns Hopkins. Amjad: …

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Can peripheral blood sampling be combined with radiation therapy for cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

September 8, 2025 • 1 min
Cancers continue to change, or mutate, as time goes on, often acquiring the ability to outmaneuver treatments. Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, has used repeated blood sampling for cancer cells with treatment strategies like radiation to stay …

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A combination of strategies help determine best cancer treatment strategies, Elizabeth Tracey reports

September 8, 2025 • 1 min
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 as well. That’s according to studies …

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How does radiation benefit the body’s response to cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

September 8, 2025 • 1 min
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 mechanism is clear.  Anangostou: Radiation induces cell death. The cells …

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Radiation is emerging as an important tool in helping improve immune response in cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports

August 31, 2025 • 1 min
When cancer develops resistance to immunotherapy, radiation may help. That’s according to a study by cancer researcher Valsamo Anagnostou at Johns Hopkins. Anagnostou: We’re administering radiation as a sensitizer for immunotherapy and as the way to circumvent primary resistance to …

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Can radiation affect distant metastasis? Elizabeth Tracey reports

August 31, 2025 • 1 min
If someone with cancer has initially responded to immunotherapy but then develops metastasis, radiation of the primary tumor may help treat those distant sites, research by Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, has shown. Anagnostou: Radiation can activate …

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Can radiation improve the success of immunotherapies to treat cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

August 31, 2025 • 1 min
Immunotherapies have proven very successful in the treatment of different types of cancer, but over time it is common for resistance to develop. Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, has found that radiation may help activate someone’s own …

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What does the area around a tumor tell us about response to treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports

August 31, 2025 • 1 min
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: The way we do this is by looking very deeply …

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Assessing individual cancer characteristics is needed to determine resistance to new types of therapies, Elizabeth Tracey reports

August 31, 2025 • 1 min
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 cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, is looking at tumor specific …

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Laboratory studies demonstrate causation when it comes to cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports

August 19, 2025 • 1 min
Studies looking at lung cancer in people who smoked showed that those who did experienced a lot more lung cancer than those who didn’t. That’s a correlation study, says Otis Brawley, a cancer epidemiology expert at Johns Hopkins. Then came …

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Do you understand what ‘risk’ means when it comes to cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

August 19, 2025 • 1 min
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 risk for the disease. Otis Brawley, a …

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What should you do about getting the RSV vaccine? Elizabeth Tracey reports

August 19, 2025 • 1 min
Respiratory syncytial virus or RSV can result in serious illness or death for infants, people with compromised immunity or older adults. The vaccine is safe and effective, and Panagis Galiatsatos, a critical care medicine expert and community health advocate at …

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With cold and flu season about to begin and Covid continuing, should you get a vaccine if you’re already under the weather? Elizabeth Tracey reports

August 19, 2025 • 1 min
It’s vaccination season, with many considering getting a Covid vaccine in light of ongoing infections nationwide. Critical care medicine expert Panagis Galiatsatos at Johns Hopkins, who’s also a community medicine advocate, says if you’re already under the weather now is …

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Monitoring your own symptoms after vaccination helps identify adverse reactions, Elizabeth Tracey reports

August 19, 2025 • 1 min
People often express concerns about routine immunizations causing adverse reactions. Panagis Galiatsatos, a critical care expert at Johns Hopkins and community medicine advocate, says it’s always a good idea to manage your own expectations by becoming educated on what common …

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