Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together
…so we decided to undergo testing. My younger sister and I were found to have Li-Fraumeni syndrome, a rare, inherited predisposition to multiple cancers. The syndrome also increases the risk…
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Turning the Tables: How Some Melanomas Exploit the Immune Response for Their Own Survival
…Taking inventory Once he had identified all the different TCRs on the CD4+ T cells, Oliveira could clone – or make multiple copies of – each one. He did this…
Is Kidney Cancer Genetic?
…a diagnosis at a young age (below 50) or diagnosis with kidney cancer in multiple kidneys. Heritable kidney cancers are often a result of one of the four major autosomal…
What Are the Common Treatments for Cancer?
…only receive one type of treatment or a combination of multiple different treatments. Treatment can also have different goals. In some cases, treatment is used in an effort to eliminate…
For the Freis, Dana-Farber Has Always Been Family
…the world, Tom Frei was revered as “the father of combination chemotherapy” for demonstrating that treatment with multiple chemotherapy agents could provide long-lasting remissions in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia…
Testicular Cancer Treatment for Young Men: What You Need to Know
…man, at any age. If you are experiencing one or multiple symptoms associated with testicular cancer, it is important you speak with your primary care physician. How is testicular cancer…
Thyroid Cancer: Five Things You Need to Know
…60,022 new cases diagnosed in 2013, 45,000 will be women. Some inherited syndromes can also predispose people to thyroid cancer, including multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A and type 2B. Other…
Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer: From a Sprint to a Marathon
…go away and it became extremely painful to breastfeed her newborn daughter. It would take multiple visits to different doctors, but in August of that year, Erlandsen was diagnosed with…
How to Use Music to Relax During Stressful Times
…a great way to stay engaged, brighten your mood, and remain motivated. Be sure to create multiple playlists for various activities and indulge in them throughout the course of the…
mRNA Takes Center Stage in COVID-19 Vaccine and Cancer Research
…a lab, and injecting them into the patient as a vaccine, physicians have been able to provoke a potent immune response to multiple types of cancer. Combining NeoVax with immune…
Biological Therapy and Chemotherapy: What Are the Differences?
…multiple sites. They may also be used to shrink a tumor before surgery or radiation treatment, destroy cancer cells that remain after surgery or radiation therapy, or help radiation and…
What is Carcinoma of the Prostate?
…(lymphomas and myelomas). Carcinomas are the most common type of cancer and they can be broken down into multiple subgroups: squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, transitional cell carcinoma, and basal cell…
Cancer-Free Triple Negative Breast Cancer Patient Looks to Future
…typically screened and the cancer is found at a later stage. Collins received aggressive treatments – including multiple rounds of chemotherapy, a lumpectomy, and radiation – at the Susan F….
Confronting the Mental Challenges of Cancer Treatment
…strategies to bolster memory, such as mnemonic devices, repeating information multiple times, and aids like electronic organizers. In some cases,also patients have been helped by stimulant or memory-enhancing medications, she…
Do Manicures Increase Cancer Risk?
…the first study noted that the “risk from multiple manicure visits remains untested,” but suggested that “even with numerous exposures, the risk for carcinogenesis [cancer-causing DNA damage] remains small.” More…
Could Leukemia Be Stopped Before It Starts? Researchers Aim to Find Out
…care concept could potentially also apply to other cancers that involve multiple hits, Armstrong believes. “You need to know which mutations are important, and the order of the mutations, and…
Director of the Lynch Syndrome Center Shares his Personal Connection to Lynch Syndrome
…this because his father, my grandfather, had actually passed away after developing multiple colon cancers by the time he was in his early 40s,” says Yurgelun. “It turned out that…
Pediatric Leukemia Patient Follows in His Father’s Footsteps
…as a physical education instructor and coach himself. As a kid, Maguire’s parents took him for a blood test at Boston Children’s Hospital after he struggled with multiple infections. The…
Breast Cancer Research: What’s the Latest?
…are explored — and if successful, are later able to be offered to patients who need them. Breast cancer today is seen as not one, but multiple different diseases. Any…