…cancer cells have certain characteristics. What type of endometrial cancer does immunotherapy work for? Pembrolizumab is effective in shrinking or slowing the growth of a minority of endometrial cancers. These…
…Cancer Treatment and Research [Podcast] What Are the Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer? [Infographic] Clinical Trial Helps Betsy Brauser Live with Ovarian Cancer “My nurses were really, really careful,” she recalls….
…methods worked even better, say scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The investigators report in Cancer Discovery that ovarian cancer organoids – tiny, three-dimensional spheres of cells modeling a tumor –…
…any cancer is hereditary in nature,” says Huma Q. Rana, MD, a cancer geneticist with Dana-Farber’s Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program. “An alteration or a mutation in a gene does…
…in Gynecologic Oncology for the Susan F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers and Antonuccio’s lead oncologist, says that there were no choriocarcinoma clinical trials for Antonuccio’s care team to try….
…F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers at Dana-Farber hosted a live cervical cancer webchat with Ursula Matulonis, MD, medical director of the Gynecologic Oncology Program at the Susan F. Smith…
Two things most surprised Jackie Page about her stage III ovarian cancer diagnosis in early 2019. She had no family history of the disease, and she had just turned 52…
…ages take control of their health. Following proper cancer screenings is an important part of maintaining health and well-being – and reducing your risk of developing certain forms of cancers….
…and the changes those cells undergo. Dana-Farber scientists accomplished just that in a recent study involving high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC), the most common form of ovarian cancer and one…
…more than a decade by the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. The researchers compared the genetic profiles of about 25,000 women with ovarian cancer and 45,000 women without the disease and…
Just as the COVID-19 pandemic was sending entire states into lockdown, Jill Bailey learned that her metastatic cervical cancer was beginning to break free of the grip of chemotherapy. It…