Cancer Conversations Podcast – Episode #11: Advances in Pediatric Brain Tumor...
Perhaps more than any other childhood cancer, pediatric brain tumor treatment is incredibly complex and takes a team effort to care for a patient. Doctors and researchers are working to not only...
View ArticleWhat Are the Most Common Cancers in Men?
Information about cancer risk can help you make informed decisions about screening and prevention strategies. As we recognize National Men’s Health Week, learn about the most common cancers in men in...
View ArticleFacing Forward After Breast Cancer
After more than a year of chemotherapy and radiation, Pamela Gasek was finally cancer free. She had completed treatment for breast cancer, but now she had to decide how to move forward. Breast cancer...
View ArticleASCO 2016 Update: Immunotherapy and Melanoma
As one of the hottest topics in cancer research today, immunotherapy took center stage at the 2016 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago. Harold J. Burstein, MD, PhD, a breast...
View ArticleManaging Behavior When Your Child Has Cancer
When you learn your child has cancer, the natural response is to do anything possible to make them happy. However, it is important to balance this desire to comfort with an understanding of what is in...
View ArticleCan Vitamin D Reduce Cancer Risk?
Scientific evidence that vitamin D can help lower the risk of cancer development, as well as the risk of metastasis or recurrence, has been mixed. But several new studies point toward such a connection...
View ArticleIndividualized Clinical Trial Gives Patient with Rare Cancer Time to Celebrate
Kerri Antonuccio marked her 40th birthday this spring with a fresh lease on life. For the first time since 2012, she didn’t feel too sick from cancer treatment to enjoy her big day. She was also able...
View ArticlePediatric Transplant Patients Fight Cancer as Karate Kids
Jessica Madsen wasn’t sure if her daughter, Addy, was ready for karate, until the 4-year-old got the chance to take free lessons in the most surprising place: Her hospital room. Addy and other stem...
View ArticleVoices Podcast – Episode #4: Mastectomy, or Not — Breast Cancer Surgery...
When Judy Rosenbaum was diagnosed with breast cancer, the thought of serious treatment and surgery, like a mastectomy, was frightening. Working with her doctors and care team, Judy found a “less is...
View ArticleHow Can Reflexology Help Cancer Patients?
When cancer patients face stress, fatigue, or nausea, they may turn to integrative therapies such as reflexology to help ease symptoms. Although each patient responds individually, reflexology can...
View ArticleWhat Are the Differences Between Lymphocytic and Myelogenous Leukemia?
Leukemia arises from malfunctions in stem cells within the bone marrow that cause abnormal white blood cells to flood into the bloodstream. Leukemias are classified as either myelogenous (also called...
View ArticleWhat Do Dana-Farber Nutritionists Eat?
Dana-Farber nutritionists help patients create and maintain healthy diets for all stages of treatment. They can provide meal plans, advice for managing treatment side effects, and tips for...
View ArticleCrane Project Fights Cancer with Creativity and Courage
When the Pfeifer family boarded a plane to Chicago in 2012, 996 paper cranes took flight with them. Nine-year-old Anna Pfeifer had learned a Japanese legend in school: whoever folds 1,000 origami...
View ArticleCancer Center Staff Send Gifts to Colleagues’ Marine Son in Kuwait
During their two decades as Dana-Farber nurses, Jeannine Sudol, RN, and Mary Delaney, RN, have watched each other’s children grow up through stories, photos, and the occasional visit. So when Delaney...
View ArticleHow Does Cancer Spread?
Cancer is most dangerous when it has spread, or metastasized, from its original site in the body. A tumor that began as an isolated mass – often treatable by surgery and/or radiation therapy – can...
View ArticleCancer Conversations Podcast – Episode #15: What You Need to Know About Lung...
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in men and women, but lung cancer research is advancing rapidly and treatments are improving at an astonishing pace. “Lung cancer research has changed so...
View ArticleMom with Breast Cancer Finds Care Close to Home
When Cathy McCue, 44, tried to find words to tell her 8-year-old twin boys about her cancer, she turned to books like “Mom Has Cancer” and “Nowhere Hair.” Her own story began in June 2015, when she...
View ArticleCan Pancreatic Cancer Be Inherited?
Most cases of pancreatic cancer develop for unknown reasons, but about 10 percent occur in families that have a strong history of the disease. That doesn’t mean that if you are a member of such a...
View ArticleWhat Are the Signs and Symptoms of Throat Cancer?
Throat cancer is a type of head and neck cancer that may affect the larynx, the area of the throat used for speaking; the nasopharynx, the area of the throat behind the nose; or the oropharynx, the...
View ArticleWhat is the Science of PD-1 and Immunotherapy?
More than a century after scientists recognized the immune system’s potential as a cancer warrior, immunotherapy is rapidly becoming a mainstay of the anti-cancer arsenal. The groundwork was laid in...
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