Understanding Cancer | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Palliative care is an often misunderstood specialty, focused on providing support and pain management strategies to cancer patients throughout all stages of their illness. This approach, which can be ...

11 Des 20176min

Clinical trials are scientific studies in which new treatments — drugs, diagnostic procedures, and other therapies — are tested to determine if they are safe and effective for patients. Nearly all can...

11 Des 20178min

A cancer diagnosis can inspire many questions, one of the most common being, “How did I get this disease?” There are a host of different causes, and in many cases, researchers do not have a definitive...

11 Des 20177min

Every time tobacco is inhaled, it creates conditions in the body almost ideally suited to the formation of cancer. So how do experts explain lung cancer in non-smokers — and what are the significant r...

11 Des 20177min

Despite the fact that cancer survivorship is on the rise, it may seem that cancer is everywhere — and that there’s nothing we can do about it. But are we really powerless to stop certain cancers from ...

11 Des 201710min

Most breast lumps are not cancer. But many myths persist about the relationship between the two — including whether a woman can tell if a lump is cancer by the way it feels, and whether a small lump i...

11 Des 20174min

From 2016: Kimmie Ng, MD, MPH, director of clinical research for Dana-Farber’s Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, discusses colorectal cancer prevention, including screening, risk factors, and ways to lo...

29 Jun 201719min

When Linda Solomon, a trained medical technologist, saw the results of her routine complete blood count in 2009, she knew it wasn’t good news. Solomon, then 61, was diagnosed with stage III multiple m...

26 Jun 201713min