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The Best Foods and Diet for Cancer Treatment and Survivorship
Regardless of diagnosis, nutrition is an important part of cancer treatment. Foods and diet can help maintain overall health, control side effects, and sometimes prevent future medical problems. “Good...
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Fighting Cancer by Day, Fighting for Cancer Research by Night
By John Quackenbush, PhD Everyone at Dana-Farber knows me as a scientist. Maybe a little crazy, but dedicated to cracking the code that drives cancer. And everyone who has spent time with me knows that...
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What Is a Cancer Vaccine?
Cancer vaccines are medicines that spur the immune system’s natural defenses against cancer. They belong to a class of substances known as biological response modifiers, which strengthen or stimulate a...
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Should Cancer Patients Avoid Fish Oil?
When starting cancer treatment, patients often have many questions about diet and which foods may help, or hinder, their recovery. A recent study published in JAMA Oncology showed the omega-3 fatty...
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Running Boston: ‘The Only Way I Know How’
By Eric Kaye If you were living under a rock this winter… that is, a rock buried by seven feet of snow like most people around Boston, here is what you might have missed. The Patriots won the Super...
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Five Things You Need to Know About Head and Neck Cancer
Head and neck cancers represent a group of cancers that affect the throat, larynx, nose, sinuses, and mouth. While these diseases only represent 2.5 percent of new cancer cases in the U.S., they affect...
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Survivor, Hero, Battle: The Complicated Language of Cancer
The language used to talk about cancer often focuses on battle words – those who are cured “won” or “survived,” while those who die from cancer “lost” their “fight.” But is cancer really something to...
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Promising Research Developments Stir Hopes for Melanoma, Lung, Breast and...
The growing excitement about the potential of immunotherapy treatments for cancer continued at the 2015 meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), one of the largest cancer...
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My Lifetime Movie: How Cancer Changed Me
Deb at the finish line for the 2014 B.A.A. Half Marathon. Deb ran to support Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. By Deb Norris My life plays like a Lifetime movie. I was born tall, blonde, with big breasts...
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ABC’s Dan Harris Shares His Journey to Mindfulness
Mindfulness meditation is a simple, effective technique for relieving stress and focusing on the present, whether you’re a current cancer patient, a longtime survivor, or even “a fidgety news man.” Dan...
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The Latest in Precision Medicine and Lung Cancer
Even before President Barack Obama declared it a national initiative, precision medicine has helped bring more effective treatment to patients with many types of cancer. One disease that has benefited...
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From Foe to Friend: Viruses Show New Promise as Cancer Treatment
Almost as long as scientists have known of the existence of viruses, they’ve dreamed of using the tiny pathogens as a weapon against cancer. Now, as a result of advances in genetic engineering and...
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Screening Tips for Finding Skin Cancer Early
As we peel off winter clothing and head for the beach, it’s a perfect time to learn about the benefits of screening exams for melanoma and other skin cancers. Preventing these cancers with sun safety...
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New Study: Chemo Before Surgery Avoids Need for Mastectomy for Many with...
Chemotherapy before surgery shrank triple-negative breast tumors in women in a clinical trial to the point where half of those who had not been eligible for breast-conserving surgery became eligible...
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Patient Turned Researcher Helps Advance Understanding of Brain Tumors
This post originally appeared on HealthHub, a blog from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Interested in seeing images of his brain, Steven Keating, currently a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab,...
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Nurses Feel ‘Privilege’ of Working with Patients and Colleagues
Dana-Farber oncology nurses have grown accustomed to being asked how they can do such a difficult job every day. But talk with them and you’ll learn that they feel far more blessed than burdened by...
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Does Sugar Feed Cancer?
By Stacy Kennedy, MPH, RD One of the most common questions we hear from our patients is, “does sugar feed cancer?” As with most nutrition research, the answer to this seemingly simple question is...
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The Science of PD-1 and Immunotherapy
This is a story about the velocity of an idea – a discovery whose potential to improve cancer treatment practically leapt from the test tube. The groundwork was laid in the 1990s, when scientists...
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Young Patients’ Artwork Shows Creativity and Courage
The artist Henri Matisse once said, “creativity takes courage.” So does facing cancer as a child. Cancer, creativity and courage merged at a recent exhibit of art by patients of Dana-Farber/Boston...
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New Research Brings Better Understanding of Brain Tumors, Treatment Advances
Brain cancer takes a variety of forms – and research to better understand and treat it is progressing on a variety of fronts. One area of focus is the tumor microenvironment the skein of tissues and...
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