Tag: Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  • Health

    Study finds ‘startling’ inequities in end-of-life opioid treatment

    Investigators at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reported Black and Hispanic patients who had poor-prognosis cancer were less likely than white patients to receive opioid medications.

    5 minutes
    Black man in a hospital bed
  • Health

    Writing the book of cancer knowledge

    The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia is an academic-industry collaboration resource that marries deeply detailed cancer genome data with predictors of drug response, information that could lead to refinements in cancer clinical trials and future treatments.

    4 minutes