Understanding Cancer | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

We hear it all the time: Cancer is a battle, and patients have to fight in order to increase their chances of a good outcome. It’s a common message used in the media, the premise being that a person’s...

12 Mar 20198min

The search for new and better cancer treatments has resulted in some incredible discoveries in recent years. Immunotherapy, a kind of cancer therapy that harnesses the immune system to fight cancer, h...

20 Feb 20196min

Chemotherapy has long been a mainstay of cancer treatment. Today, in the era of precision cancer medicine, there are newer treatments and chemotherapy that can “target” cancer cells more specifically....

7 Feb 201911min

Father and daughter Dennis Gorden and Becky Nutley can each tell you first-hand what a cancer diagnosis is like. Gorden was diagnosed with bladder cancer; Nutley has smoldering multiple myeloma. The t...

10 Des 201826min

Cancer research is often geared toward finding new and effective treatments, but researchers are also constantly trying to pinpoint ways to find cancer in its early stages, when it is often more treat...

17 Okt 201812min

Prostate cancer is a disease in which cancer forms in the prostate, a gland located just below the bladder and in front of the rectum in males. In the United States, a man has a one in five chance of ...

4 Okt 201815min

Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women, and as a result, there is an almost endless stream of information about the disease on the Internet and beyond. One fact we know is that ear...

27 Sep 201814min

Leukemia, a type of blood cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, is one of the most well-known types of cancer. In the case of leukemia, the bone marrow produces abnormal blood cells, suppress...

27 Aug 20189min