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A team of Dana-Farber researchers has identified a potential new way to assess clinically valuable features of clear cell renal cell carcinoma, a form of kidney cancer, using image processing with deep learning.

A new agent that subverts myeloma cells from within while also subjecting them to an immune system attack produced impressive responses in combination with dexamethasone in patients with multiple myeloma that had relapsed and stopped responding to all currently available therapies

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center announced plans for a comprehensive new collaboration designed to advance the future of cancer care and build the region’s only independent, free-standing inpatient hospital for adult cancer patients.

Researchers in the Bernstein Laboratory at Dana-Farber and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have found that gliomas– incurable brain tumors– can arise due to changes in the epigenome.

Researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Medical University of Lodz have found a way to detect increased cancer risk associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations without genetic sequencing, according to a new study in Nature Communications.

Patients with depression and/or anxiety prior to a diagnosis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma had shorter survival times than patients without a mental health diagnosis.

Several phase 3 studies conducted by researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute show promising results for patients with rectal, brain, and kidney cancers.

People living with HIV remain at higher risk than people living without HIV for developing various cancers that can be treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.

A targeted kinase inhibitor added to a two-drug immunotherapy combination slowed the progression of advanced kidney cancer in previously untreated patients, according to research led by an oncologist from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

A new study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found that for young women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, pausing endocrine therapy to pursue a pregnancy did not raise the short-term risk that the disease will recur.

In the open-label phase 2 LITESPARK-003 study, led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Toni Choueiri, MD, researchers investigated for the first time the combination of cabozantinib, a VEGF TKI, plus belzutifan, a HIF-2α inhibitor.

In a new study in the journal Nature Cancer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists shed new light on the mechanism that raises and lowers PSMA expression in prostate cancer cells.

Research from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute looks at what happens before the emergence of mutations that interrupt cellular differentiation in colorectal cancer and finds not only evidence of fetal reprogramming that can initiate cancer, but also a protein, Sox9, that fuels that reprogramming.

As the first clinical trial of the drug novobiocin is about to open for patients with cancers carrying BRCA gene mutations, new research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute shows the drug poses a double threat to tumor cells.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers outline the complexities of colorectal cancer and the research needed to map out a path toward understanding it.

Sacituzumab govitecan, a novel antibody drug-conjugate therapy has been granted accelerated approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of metastatic HR+, HER2- breast cancer.

In an internationally conducted clinical trial lead by Dana-Farber involving patients with recurrent ovarian cancer that is resistant to platinum therapy, a novel conjugate therapy called mirvetuximab soravtansine resulted in substantially better responses than standard treatments.

A three-drug combination that sent chronic lymphocytic leukemia into deep remissions in a broad group of patients in a clinical trial is highly effective in patients with high-risk forms of the disease, a new, phase 2 clinical trial led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators indicates.

In a new study, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute identify, for the first time, inherited genetic variations that place patients at high risk for these complications.

A CAR-T-cell therapy known as axicabtagene ciloleucel is safe and shows encouraging signs of efficacy in a small pilot trial involving patients with lymphoma of the brain and/or spinal cord.

As patients with cancer increasingly receive treatment in community hospitals and clinics and many such centers experience a shortage of oncologists, a group of physicians at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School has proposed the first-ever training blueprint for oncologists planning careers in a community or academic-community setting.

In a new study, scientists reveal for the first time the genomic differences between chronic lymphocytic leukemia and Richter's, the molecular pathways by which Richter's emerges, and the existence of multiple subtypes of the disease.

A new clinical tool developed by a team of researchers led by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute pinpoints which clonal hematopoiesis patients are at highest risk for cancer progression.

Researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will present more than 30 research studies at the 44th annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium on December 7-10th.

In a new study, investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute demonstrate that changes in immune system cells can indicate which patients with high-risk "smoldering" myeloma are likely to progress to myeloma and which will benefit the most from treatment.

Mirvetuximab soravtansine has been granted accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on November 14 for the treatment of recurrent platinum-resistant high-grade serous ovarian cancer that highly expresses folate receptor alpha.

A computer platform developed at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute makes the matching process for clinical trials for patients with genomic alterations both easier and faster.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of the world’s leading cancer research and treatment centers, has partnered with the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, the leading network of immuno-oncology expertise in the world, as a member of the PICI Network with a goal to better understand the tumor microenvironment across cancer types and translate these basic discoveries to the clinic as impactful cancer immunotherapies.

An online tool developed by researchers and physicians at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute can accurately and rapidly identify people who should undergo testing for inherited genetic changes that raise the risk of developing certain cancers, a new study shows.

Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center opened a new facility in Foxborough, MA, which provides world-class cancer care to patients in southern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.