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Physician-scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have received a 5-year, $15 million Program Project Grant from the NCI for research in endometrial cancer

A survey of cancer survivors found that over a quarter had a physical disability impairing mobility and almost 10% had a disability affecting self-care.

In a survey, over 200 oncologists agreed on how AI can be responsibly integrated into patient care and how to protect patients from hidden biases of AI.

The American Nurses Credentialing Center has awarded Magnet® status to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for the 5th time in a row.

Dana-Farber details how their Neuro-Inclusive Oncology Care and Empowerment program was developed to help physicians and other providers treat cancer in patients who have intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.

Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD, has been named senior vice president for drug discovery and chief research strategy officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

In the GENERATE study, 90% of those who viewed an online genetic education program chose to be tested for inherited predisposition to pancreatic cancer.

The Third Transatlantic Exchange in Oncology Conference will focus on liquid biopsy as an emerging approach in precision cancer medicine.

Different immunomodulatory mechanisms are at work depending on the type of treatment and the genetic makeup of the cancer in RCC.

Catherine J. Wu, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has been awarded the Sjöberg Prize today for her pioneering research in the field of personalized vaccines to treat cancer.

Cancer survivors with elevated levels of NT-proBNP have a higher risk of death, according to an analysis conducted by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers are the recipients of the Outstanding Investigator Award from the NCI, part of the National Institutes of Health.

More than 125 Dana-Farber affiliated doctors have been included in Boston magazine's annual "Top Doctors" guide.

To understand how fertility concerns affect breast cancer treatment decisions, researchers analyzed data from the Young and Strong study.

Blood test uses cell-free DNA methylation to quantify tumor burden and distinguish neuroendocrine prostate cancer from prostate adenocarcinoma.

Belzutifan, a HIF-2α inhibitor, has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of patients with advanced kidney cancer previously treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors and antiangiogenic therapies.

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that the diversity of T cells in peripheral blood declines with age in patients with breast cancer and, in younger patients, is lower in those diagnosed with metastatic disease than with ductal carcinoma in situ.

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found that the diversity of T cells in peripheral blood declines with age in patients with breast cancer and, in younger patients, is lower in those diagnosed with metastatic disease than with ductal carcinoma in situ.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is launching a first-of-its-kind, integrated clinic to increase early detection of precancerous conditions and to prevent cancer from arising in individuals at increased risk for the disease.

Researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will present more than 30 research studies at the 46th annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 5–9, 2023.

The Brain Tumour Charity awarded a Junior Fellows grants of £600,000 over four years - the first of its kind - to Dana-Farber Research Fellow Tyler Miller, MD, PhD.

A drug that simultaneously strikes cancer cells' growth circuits and pipeline to the bloodstream produced encouraging results in a clinical trial involving patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors, according to a study led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators.

In a new paper in JCO Oncology Practice, bioethics researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute call on medical societies, government leaders, clinicians, and researchers to work together to ensure AI-driven healthcare preserves patient autonomy and respects human dignity.

Belzutifan significantly reduced the risk of progression of clear cell renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer, in patients previously treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors and anti-angiogenic therapies compared with everolimus in a phase 3 clinical trial.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a Harvard Medical School affiliated teaching hospital and one of the world's leading cancer treatment and oncology research institutions, and Oncoclínicas & Co, the largest group dedicated to cancer in Latin America, announce the expansion of their collaboration with the opening of the first Oncoclínicas Cancer Center as an International Collaborative Member of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Bradley Bernstein, MD, PhD, Chair of Cancer Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Novel treatments, combination therapies, and personalized medicine headline several studies led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and presented for the first time at the European Society of Medical Oncology Congress 2023 in Madrid, Spain.

Loss of the “housekeeping” gene methylthioadenosine phosphorylase, or MTAP, is a common event in cancer.

New research from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher Cigall Kadoch, PhD, along with colleagues at Princeton University and Washington University in St. Louis, reveals a key role for intrinsically disordered proteins known as IDRs that are implicated in a wide range of human diseases, from cancer to neurodegeneration

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.