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Five Things You Need to Know About Oral Chemotherapy
Oral chemotherapy pills As cancer treatments advance, more patients are taking anti-cancer medications, including oral chemotherapy, at home. Unlike the traditional IV infusion chemotherapy given in a...
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Helping Cancer Survivors Get a Good Night’s Sleep
Sarah Boczanowski and her parents at a Boston Celtics game Sarah Boczanowski was tired. Her turbulent relationship with sleep, dating back to her childhood, had only worsened since her leukemia...
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Finding the Right Words at the Right Time
This is an excerpt from a perspective published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Feb. 12, 2015. By Justin Sanders, MD, MSc Justin Sanders, MD, MSc When Ms. C. died, I was sad but not...
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Can Shorter Courses of Radiation Be Safe and Effective?
Rinaa Punglia, MD, MPH Radiation therapy, which uses radiation to kill cancer cells, is a common treatment option for breast cancer patients. After a lumpectomy, a standard course of radiation...
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Five Common Myths About Clinical Trials
Better cancer treatments depend on clinical trials of new drugs and other therapies, but in the United States, only 3 percent of cancer patients participate in such trials. Patients often hesitate to...
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Patients Celebrate Pig Day: A Jimmy Fund Clinic Tradition
This post originally appeared on The Jimmy Fund Blog. By Erica Equi Seven years ago, Martha Young, program manager of Patient and Family Education at Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic, met a young...
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What to Eat When You Have Gastrointestinal Cancer
Maintaining a healthy diet is important during all stages of cancer treatment. But, for some gastrointestinal (GI) cancer patients, keeping up with a nutritious and well-rounded diet can be especially...
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How to Manage Stress and Anxiety During Cancer Treatment
Cancer comes with significant stress and anxiety for patients and their loved ones, which can make managing treatment even more difficult. Recently, Karen Fasciano, PsyD, clinical psychiatrist at...
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Helping Cancer Patients ‘Live Life to the Fullest’
Cancer survivors of all ages sometimes face psychological, social, or physical side effects that are long-lasting or develop later in life. With the number of survivors reaching 12 million in the U.S....
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What’s New in Skin Cancer Research?
Although malignant melanoma has been attracting much of the media spotlight because of promising new immunotherapy drugs, advances are also being made in other types of skin cancer. Nonmelanoma skin...
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What Is Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia?
Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia (Waldenström’s) is a slow-growing type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma marked by abnormal levels of an antibody called macroglobulin (IgM). Also known as lymphoplasmacytic...
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Remembering My Father’s Journey with Multiple Myeloma
By Elise Renner There’s a 1-in-12 chance that this is the month yours or your loved one’s cancer is recognized—odds better than the survival rates for some of these diseases. Some months, like October,...
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Angelina Jolie Puts Spotlight on Genetic Testing and Ovarian Cancer Risk
Judy Garber, MD, MPH Once again Angelina Jolie is making headlines after penning another op-ed in The New York Times. The actress shared she has undergone more cancer preventive surgery – this time...
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Which U.S. States Have the Highest Cancer Rates? [Infographic]
In a country as geographically vast as the United States, and with a large and mobile population, it’s not surprising that cancer rates vary by region, by state – and even by localities within states....
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Answers to Common Questions About Stem Cell Transplants
Stem cell transplantation can be a life-saving treatment option for patients with blood cancers or disorders. The procedure, sometimes called bone marrow transplantation, replaces bone marrow that...
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Chronicling Cancer Research in Books and Film
In two recent books and the Ken Burns TV documentary, “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies”, prominent researchers explain eloquently why cancer is such a stubborn problem and detail how the latest...
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What Is It Like to Enroll in a Clinical Trial?
When Elizabeth Cahn was presented with her treatment options for triple-negative breast cancer, the decision was about more than just getting healthy; it was about “paying it forward.” “I know there...
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Scientific ‘Salvage’ Project Advances Understanding of AML
It looked like a scientific dead end – a clinical trial that found no benefit to a potential drug for a form of leukemia. But, like police detectives working a cold case, Dana-Farber scientists...
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What Specialists Does a Child See When Diagnosed with Cancer?
Physicians tend to move quickly when a child is diagnosed with cancer. That’s because some of the most common types of childhood cancers (such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), neuroblastoma, and...
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For ‘Orange is the New Black’ Star Uzo Aduba, Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge...
Emmy Award-winning actress and Medfield, Mass., native Uzo Aduba has won numerous accolades for her portrayal of Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren on the Netflix original series, “Orange Is the New Black.”...
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