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3 weeks 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 |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.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Stacy Wentworth |Michael Poku |Susan Levenstein |Matthew Brackman
It is rare that an ABC movie of the week endures. Buzz Kulick’s 1971 Brian’s Song is the notable exception. IMDB describes the movie as a “beloved tearjerker,” which portrays the friendship between Chicago Bears teammates Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo in the mid-1960s. Central to the plot is not only the race-based prejudice that existed in professional football at the time but also the public depiction of cancer in early 1970s America.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Susan Levenstein |Beth Boynton
If you had an assistant who helped you do your work faster, more efficiently, and more precisely, would you fear it? With artificial intelligence (AI) at the forefront of virtually everything today, two of the most common questions I hear in my daily practice are, “Do you use AI?” and “What does AI do for you?” For some, these questions stem from a desire to access cutting-edge tools, while others express concerns about its rapid advancements.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Debbie Moore-Black |Susan Levenstein |Robert Pearl |Michael Millenson
I was raised in the Catholic Church. The solemn, reserved, respectful quiet as the priest whispered out his occasional reverent chants. That’s what I knew. That was the only thing I grew to love of the Catholic faith. This friend of mine. We met years ago by happenstance. She was a firm believer in God, her husband, her dog, her daughters, and her Christian novels that she read feverishly. She also loved social media.
