MGH Investigates: How Does the Body Respond to Tumor Growth?
Cancer researchers and physicians have long been studying the ways in which cancer grows and spreads; what drugs or therapies might thwart that growth, and […]
MGH Cancer Center Investigates the Cancer Immunotherapy Revolution
Boosting the body’s immune response against cancer is the most exciting advance in the treatment of tumors in the past several years. The medical community […]
Quality of Life for Pediatric Brain Cancer Survivors: Does it Depend Upon the Type of Radiation?
Pediatric cancer is fortunately rare, but when a family faces this diagnosis, it is devastating. It is a series of treatments, sometimes under anesthesia for […]
What You Didn’t Know About Mass General’s Cancer Dream Teams
How do you break the mold of the status quo cancer research? You gather the best and the brightest from multiple institutions around the world […]
So, When Should You Schedule a Mammogram?
Breast cancer is the most common non skin cancer and second deadliest cancer in women. As with all cancer screening, recommendations for breast cancer screening […]
Acupuncture as an Integrative Therapy for Cancer Patients at the Massachusetts General Hospital
When “J” was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, she knew there would be a long course of treatment. She also knew she wanted to […]
The Risk of Lymphedema for Patients Treated for Breast Cancer: Demystifying the Myth
Lymphedema is a potential side effect of breast cancer surgery and radiation therapy that can appear during the months that a patient is undergoing treatment […]
Honoring the “Everyday Amazing”
It is the perfect combination. Honoring people who contribute to the fight against cancer in outstanding and sometimes unseen ways, and raising money to aid […]
Lifestyle Medicine: Changing Lives, Empowering Patients
There are 14 million cancer survivors in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society, and as treatments improve and more people are diagnosed at […]
Are Socio-economic or genetic factors to blame for poorer breast cancer outcomes in African American women?
Since the late 1980’s, there has been a vast amount of research devoted to understanding the racial disparities in breast cancer. It is well established […]