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何为肺占位体?
通常情况下，经胸腔X光和CT扫描检查出来的、位于肺脏组织里的小肿块往往呈良性，但它有时也可能具有致癌性。中国病理学家将其称为 “占位病灶（space-occupying lesions）” 。
Given Months to Live, Kidney Cancer Patient Defies the Odds
Two years after being given six months to live, Mullan’s cancer is still at bay because of immunotherapy and targeted chemotherapy – and through it all, he achieved one of his dreams: graduating from Harvard Law School.
What is Cancer? Common Questions, Answered
How does cancer start? In general, how is it treated? Here’s the basics of what you need to know.
Who are the Doctors on a Cancer Care Team?
Depending on your type of cancer, your care team can include many providers, including five or more physicians. They each play a distinct but equally vital role.
Cancer Biology 101: What is Drug Resistance?
Drug resistance is one of the major obstacles to successful cancer treatment — so scientists are looking at ways to overcome this obstacle.
How is Gene Therapy Being Used to Treat Cancer and Other Diseases?
Gene therapy is a way of treating or preventing disease by altering the genetic instructions within an individual’s cells.
What is the Relationship Between Gut Microbes and Cancer?
Gut microbes perform a variety of functions that are essential to health — and the relationship between gut microbes and cancer is just beginning to be explored scientifically.
How Treatment Works for CAR T-Cell Therapy Patients
CAR T-cell therapy is a form of immunotherapy that uses specially modified T cells — part of the body’s defense system against disease — to attack cancer. It involves collecting T cells from a patient and genetically modifying them to recognize cancer cells. Reinfused into the patient, CAR T cells can spark a potent immune … Read more
BRCA and Ovarian Cancer: What’s the Link?
Mutations in BRCA genes are linked to hereditary ovarian cancer as well as breast cancer.
What is Monoclonal Antibody Therapy for Cancer?
Monoclonal antibody therapy is a kind of immunotherapy that empowers the body’s immune system to attack cancer cells.
Breast Cancer and Birth Control Pills: What’s the Link?
“Overall, contraceptives still have a favorable risk benefit for women as contraception,” says Wendy Chen, MD, a senior physician in Dana-Farber’s Susan F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers.
What is Renal Cell Carcinoma and How Is It Treated?
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a type of kidney cancer that starts in the lining of the very small tubes in the kidneys, called tubules.
What Parents of Pediatric Leukemia Patients Need to Know
Leukemia is a type of cancer that starts in early forms of white blood cells. White blood cells are cells that typically fight infections.
What is a Living Drug?
“Living” drugs consist of fully functional cells that have been selected and often modified to treat specific diseases, such as cancer. CAR T-cell therapy and therapeutic vaccines fall into this category.
CDK4/6 Inhibitors: How Do They Stop Breast Cancer Growth?
So far, CDK4/6 inhibitors have been shown to be most effective in treating advanced estrogen-receptor positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.
Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer: What You Should Know
Many factors contribute to increased breast cancer risk for some women — including certain inherited genes. About 5 to 10 percent of breast cancer cases are thought to be hereditary, meaning that they are the direct result of gene mutations passed on from a parent. Genes are individual units of inheritance made of DNA. There … Read more
Living with Ovarian Cancer as a Chronic Disease, and Celebrating Milestones
Whenever Joan Janssen meets fellow ovarian cancer patients, she shares words of wisdom that she’s gained from seven years of living with the disease. “This is a recurring disease; don’t be stunned if it comes back,” she tells them. “You fought it the first time. You can do it even better the next time.” Janssen … Read more
New Interventions Address Sexual Health after Ovarian Cancer Treatment
Ovarian cancer often goes undetected before it reaches more invasive stages, but there is one aspect of the disease that frequently remains ignored even after diagnosis: Its impact upon a patient’s sexual health and function. Now, as research and treatment advances are allowing more women to live longer and healthier with ovarian cancer, Dana-Farber is … Read more
What is the Relationship Between Tea and Cancer Prevention?
Drinking tea has been a practice around the world since ancient times, and often has been seen as a way of promoting good health. Whether tea – either the green or black varieties – can reduce the risk of cancer is a question that has been studied, but hasn’t yielded a definite answer. Made from … Read more