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2025 Cancer Awareness Month

March is colorectal cancer awareness month. Colorectal cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the colon or the rectum and is the third most common cancer worldwide.
 

Below are resources to help you learn more about screening and treatments:

1. Colorectal Cancer at Johns Hopkins

2. Colorectal Cancer Overview

3. Podcasts

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

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Featuring  Dr. Nilo Azad

Cancer Research Awareness

May 14, 2025 
6-7pm 

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23rd Annual Research Matters Conference

Don’t miss out on the Research Matters Conference on May 15! Secure your spot today and be part of this insightful event. Click below to register.

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Featured bookWhat Happens Now? A Children's Guide to Living When a Loved One is Dying

When a parent is diagnosed with an acute illness, child-oriented supportive resources should be deployed during an inordinately stressful, fragile and disorienting period in their child’s lives. 

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Illustration of child and green adult in a green park. What happens now? A children's guide to living when a loved one is dying Written by Robin Hopkins Illustrated by Nick Gianci

March 2024Dr. Clayton Yates

Johns Hopkins University's Clayton Yates joins the global Cancer Grand Challenges team taking on cancer inequities

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AAAS FellowDr. Cynthia Sears

Dr. Cynthia L. Sears, M.D., a Professor at Johns Hopkins University, leads pioneering research in microbiome and cancer immunotherapy at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. As President of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) in 2019 and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, she significantly influences the field of infectious diseases.

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Vanessa's Colon Cancer Journey

When Vanessa was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, she was told there was nothing that could be done. However, an immunotherapy clinical trial offered by the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins gave her hope and a new lease on life. This is her story. 

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