Tag: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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How serious is FDA warning about revolutionary blood-cancer treatment?
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher details promise, peril of CAR T-cell therapy, which enlists body’s immune system to fight disease
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Study finds link between breastfeeding, rise in adult colorectal cancer risk
Mothers should not halt practice of breastfeeding, which offers many benefits to infants, as much more research is still needed, scientists say.
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The social life of a dermatologist
It might be jarring when a friend, or complete stranger, pulls down their shirt while you’re trying to eat dinner. It’s also an opportunity.
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Bringing the cancer fight back down to earth
Halving deaths and other Biden goals are in reach, experts say, but let’s forget about “moonshot” and focus on resources and prevention.
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Hope for breast cancer patients, but with a cruel caveat
A new target for an old antibiotic is rooted in a decades-long effort to unlock the secrets of a lethal childhood disease.
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Shining new light on vitamin D and cancer
Consuming higher amounts of vitamin D — mainly from dietary sources — may help protect against developing young-onset colorectal cancer or precancerous colon polyps, according to the first study to show such an association.
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When 45 is the new 50
An independent expert panel has recommended that individuals of average risk for colorectal cancer begin screening exams at 45 years of age instead of the traditional 50.
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Brainstorming a cure
Regulatory T cells in the brain can be reprogrammed from guarding glioblastoma tumors to attacking them from within.
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Cancer vaccine shows durable immune effects
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and affiliated institutions have shown that a personalized cancer vaccine that is specific to an individual’s tumor has lasting effects, detecting vaccine-related immune system changes years after the vaccine was given.
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DNA, assemble
A concept for seeded all-or-nothing assembly of micron-scale DNA nanostructures that could extend nanofabrication capabilities and enable creation of highly specific diagnostics.
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Closing the gap
Mortality rate after cancer surgery drops during 10-year period, but gap persists between Black and white patients.
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COVID-19 and cancer
Study represents the most comprehensive scientific survey to date about the interrelationship between COVID-19 and cancer.
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‘Universal phenomenon’ shared by metastatic prostate tumors
Prostate cancer progresses to a more-dangerous metastatic state by resurrecting dormant molecular mechanisms that had guided the fetal development of the prostate gland but had been subsequently switched off.
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A new test method
A novel liquid biopsy method can detect kidney cancers with high accuracy, including small, localized tumors which are often curable but for which no early detection method exists.
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Scientists map human protein interactions
Scientists produce a reference map of human protein interactions, releasing data helpful for understanding diseases including cancer and infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
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Blood biopsies offer early warning of cancer’s return
Researchers have designed personalized blood biopsies that offer the potential of an early warning signal of breast cancer recurrence.
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Racial disparities found in culturally competent cancer care
A new study from Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute finds that non-white minority survivors are less likely than non-Hispanic whites to be seen by cancer specialists who share or understand their culture.
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The magic of the unexpected
William G. Kaelin Jr., the Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is one of three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how cells sense and adapt to changes in oxygen availability, a process critical for survival.
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Cells recall the way they were
Study in mice reveals that adult tissues retain a memory of which genes are activated during very early development, and that that memory can be recovered. Under certain conditions, adult cells play their developmental “movie” in a slow rewind, reactivating fetal genes. These findings have important implications for regenerative medicine and cancer research.
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Gene therapy was a ‘last shot’
Three years after undergoing gene therapy at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center to treat a life-threatening immune disorder, an Ohio college student is no longer thinking about his own “last shot” for health, but rather about medical school and “giving back.”
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‘Exercise hormone’ found to target key bone cells
Scientists have discovered that irisin, a hormone released by muscles during exercise, directly acts on key regulatory cells that control the breakdown and formation of bone.
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Nerve-signaling pathway that drives sustained pain found
Harvard researchers have identified in mice a set of neurons responsible for sustained pain and pain-coping behaviors. The new study is the first one to map out how these responses arise outside the brain.
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Seeking a culprit behind rise in colorectal cancer among younger adults
Kimmie Ng, a Dana-Farber physician-researcher, answers questions on possible factors driving an increase in colon cancer among young adults.
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Survey of oncologists finds knowledge gap on medical marijuana
Harvard psychiatrist Ilana Braun found a knowledge gap on medical marijuana in a survey of oncologists nationwide.
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Personal cancer vaccines show promise
Researchers have found that an injectable scaffold that incorporates tumor-specific peptides can be personalized, stimulating a patient’s immune system to destroy his or her unique cancer tumors.
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Cancer alarm at the firehouse
Harvard researchers have teamed with local departments to examine cancer hazards contained in firehouse life.