Last update:

Oncology & Cancer news

Oncology & Cancer

New tool puts reproductive risk for BRCA carriers into perspective

"I just wish someone had told me this was a possibility." Kara Maxwell distinctly remembers the moment she heard those words eight years ago from the mother of a child with Fanconi anemia (FA). Maxwell met her at a conference ...

Oncology & Cancer

Transplant of frozen testicular tissue after chemotherapy during childhood provides hope for fertility restoration

In boys who, before starting puberty, undergo radical treatments that can affect their fertility, testicular tissue can be preventively removed and frozen. This is done to preserve testicular stem cells, the precursors of ...

Oncology & Cancer

Study identifies TBK1 as key to overcoming CAR T resistance

Russell W. Jenkins, MD, Ph.D., a physician investigator in the Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research at the Mass General Cancer Center and an assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is senior author ...

Oncology & Cancer

Using AI to predict the outcome of aggressive skin cancers

Artificial intelligence can determine the course and severity of aggressive skin cancers, such as Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), to enhance clinical decision making by generating personalized predictions of treatment-specific ...

Oncology & Cancer

Childhood cancer genome study reveals hidden variants

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute collaborated with multiple institutions to pinpoint rare germline structural variants as risk factors for non-blood-related cancers in children, including tumors in various organs. ...

Oncology & Cancer

New possibilities for treating intractable brain tumors unveiled

Immunotherapy, which enhances the immune system's T cell response to eliminate cancer cells, has emerged as a key approach in cancer treatment. However, in the case of glioblastoma, an aggressive and treatment-resistant brain ...

Oncology & Cancer

AI tool predicts cancer gene activity from biopsy images

To determine the type and severity of a cancer, pathologists typically analyze thin slices of a tumor biopsy under a microscope. But to figure out what genomic changes are driving the tumor's growth—information that can ...

Oncology & Cancer

Engineered receptors help the immune system home in on cancer

Most cancer treatments—from chemotherapies to engineered immune cells—have a host of side effects, in large part because they affect healthy cells in the body at the same time as targeting tumor cells. For the same reason, ...

Oncology & Cancer

A new screening tool improves liver cancer detection

Hepatocellular carcinoma, a type of liver cancer, is the sixth most common cancer worldwide and the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Screening efforts for this cancer focus on individuals diagnosed with viral ...

Oncology & Cancer

Research highlights breast cancer risk for female firefighters

It's well documented that firefighters have significantly higher rates of cancer than the general population, and these elevated rates have been associated with exposures to toxic chemicals on the job. However, most research ...