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3 weeks ago | 
kevinmd.com | Susan Levenstein |Robert Pearl |Christopher Foster |Jay Anders
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Physician and clinical researcher Chris Apfel discusses his article, “Functional precision oncology: a game changer in cancer therapy.” Chris explains that functional precision oncology takes a highly personalized approach by testing a patient’s live tumor cells outside the body (ex-vivo) against a panel of cancer drugs to directly observe which treatments are most effective against that specific cancer.
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3 weeks ago | 
kevinmd.com | Christopher Foster |Susan Levenstein |Sean Lee Jordan |Martha Rosenberg
Introduction: Financing cancer or fighting it? Tobacco remains the single largest preventable cause of cancer worldwide, responsible for nearly 8 million deaths annually, including 1.2 million from exposure to secondhand smoke. Despite decades of public health efforts, global tobacco use continues to pose a significant threat to cancer prevention. The question remains: Are we truly winning the war against the world’s leading carcinogen, or are we merely negotiating with death?
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2 months ago | 
kevinmd.com | Robert Pearl |Susan Levenstein |Martha Rosenberg |Paul Pender
When we think of cancer treatment, we often focus on the immediate goals: Shrinking tumors, stopping the spread of the disease, and ultimately aiming for a cure. What doesn’t get as much attention, but is just as important, is how cancer treatments can affect a patient’s sexual health and reproductive future. Many cancer patients, particularly younger ones, are often left in the dark about how their treatment could impact their sexual function and fertility.
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2 months ago | 
kevinmd.com | Susan Levenstein |Robert Pearl
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Fertility specialist Oluyemisi Famuyiwa discusses her article, “Endometriosis and fertility: What every woman should know.” She explores how endometriosis, an inflammatory condition affecting 10 percent of reproductive-age women, disrupts fertility through pelvic adhesions, ovarian damage, and chronic inflammation.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Susan Levenstein |Sean Lee Jordan |Martha Rosenberg |Paul Pender
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Arnold Eiser, an internal medicine physician and author, discusses his KevinMD article, “What Chadwick Boseman’s death reveals about cancer prevention and risk factors,” examining how environmental toxins and systemic health inequities shaped the actor’s battle with colorectal cancer.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Martha Rosenberg |Susan Levenstein |Robert Pearl |L. Joseph Parker
An interview with Jerome Hoffman, MD, professor emeritus at UCLA. Martha Rosenberg: As professor emeritus at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), you engaged in what is laughingly called in academics the “triple threat” of research, teaching, and clinical work for 30 years. Can you please summarize a little of what you did? Jerome Hoffman: You’re right – I spent my career as an old-style academic, doing those three types of work.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Arnold R. Eiser |Susan Levenstein |Robert Pearl |Martha Rosenberg
We lost a very talented actor and director, Chadwick Boseman, way too early to colorectal cancer in 2023. When I recently became aware of his enormous talent, I resolved to examine his premature death as best I could with the hope of sparing others such a life snuffed out in the midst of a highly successful career.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Catherine Diamond |Matt Drewes |Martha Rosenberg |Susan Levenstein
I didn’t know who Emmitt Smith was. I didn’t know September was Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. I didn’t know what was going on in the weekend football game my husband was watching next to me on the couch. I was typing a clinic note because, in general, that is what I am doing if I am sitting down, regardless of the day or time. I am an academic physician with a large HIV clinic practice. HIV remains more common in men than in women; thus, I have a special interest in men’s health.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Lecia V. Sequist |Susan Levenstein |Robert Pearl |Martha Rosenberg
I recently encountered a new patient, a seemingly healthy 25-year-old man who had just graduated from college and was working his first job. He was not a tobacco user and had no medical diagnoses, but shoulder and abdominal pain brought him to Mass General Brigham. After a series of tests, the diagnosis was clear: stage IV lung cancer. As a lung cancer oncologist who has treated patients for 20 years, I’ve seen major changes in my clinic.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Vivek Podder |Susan Levenstein |Robert Pearl |Eugene Chan
I lost an inspiration—my relative (Dr. PBA), a dedicated and talented doctor, who succumbed after a long and courageous battle with metastatic breast cancer and brain metastasis. She was the driving force behind my passion for oncology research, especially in breast cancer.
