This Moment In Cancer
'Morbid Acceptance': Visualizing My Death As I Face The Next Cancer Scan
"Imaginings of my own death began to swirl in my mind. I wondered if it would still be summer at my funeral, or maybe fall. I thought about the specific...
Do High-Deductible Plans Make Even Cancer Care A Luxury Item?
Rosemarie Day, one of the founding leaders of the Health Connector, worries that increasingly popular high-deductible plans can lead to poor medical decisions -- and worse outcomes for patients.
Immune-Boosting Gel Could Stem Spread Of Cancer After Surgery, Mouse Study Suggests
Among more than 100 mice with breast cancer, the researchers say, 65 percent showed a durable survival benefit, compared to just 10 percent of mice who got surgery alone.
Standard Age For Mammograms Puts Nonwhite Women At Risk, Study Finds
Federal guidelines recommend that women get screened for breast cancer annually after age 50. That time-frame makes sense for white women, but not for women of color, a new study...
When The Odds Of Surviving Cancer Are 50-50
"The only way for me to know if I will survive this cancer is to try," writes Dr. Adam Philip Stern. "Like roughly half of my patients, I may find...
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After Cancer At 18, I Learned 'Chemo Brain' Can Last Long Past Chemo
Cancer treatment has left its mark on my brain, even four years after starting treatment for lymphoma, writes Cynthia Fernandez.
As More Survive Cancer, These Doctors Try To Ease The Aftermath Of Treatment
Million of Americans have survived cancer. Several local doctors are among a growing group trying to improve the quality of life for those survivors.
New Cancer Treatments Top $500,000 And Raise Daunting Questions About How To Pay
CAR-T cell therapy gives new urgency to a long-simmering question: Is there any ceiling on cancer drug prices?
Q&A With A Cannabis Clinician: What Cancer Patients Should Know
It can be hard for cancer patients to find guidance on using marijuana, so we asked Dr. Jordan Tishler, who runs two Boston-area cannabis clinics, for advice.
Cancer Patients Asking Doctors About Marijuana Still Get Little Help
Although medical marijuana has been legal in Massachusetts for six years, most doctors aren’t able to guide cancer patients navigating the system and using it for their symptoms.
Not All Cancer Kills: Researchers Study Active Surveillance For 'Stage Zero Breast Cancer'
Researchers are finding that, like prostate cancer patients, many breast and thyroid cancer patients are also better off being actively watched rather than aggressively treated.
Cancerphobia: Our Changing Emotional Relationship With 'The Big C'
Cancerphobia has been with us for a long time. David Ropeik, an author on the gaps between how risky things are and how much we fear them, says it's time...
Promise Seen In Personal Vaccines Made Just To Treat Your Cancer
Researchers are developing a new weapon against cancer: a "personal vaccine" made just for you. It trains a patient's immune system to respond to a tumor's specific DNA.
WBUR Invitation: Ask Leaders Your Big-Picture Questions On Cancer
To cap our year-long cancer series, This Moment In Cancer, we'll host a free event on Jan. 11 in which two cancer leaders answer your lingering questions.
How One Family Tackled The 'Team Sport' Of Tough Prostate Cancer Choices
Cancer experts say the rise of "active surveillance" for some tumors is a major step forward, but one family's reaction is a reminder that for many, cancer is still the...
For Some, Cutting-Edge 'CAR-T' Treatment Unleashes 'Pac-Man' Cells Against Blood Cancer
This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the second therapy in this class, called Yescarta, to treat advanced B-cell lymphomas.
With Cancer Diagnoses, Better-Off Americans May Get Too Much Attention
Death rates for four common cancers were nearly identical over 38 years in richer and poorer counties, even though the rate of cancer diagnosis was much higher among the more...
When Cancer Can't Be Cured, Low-Dose Chemo Aims To Keep It In Check
Some cancer specialists believe a gentler, steadier chemo regimen -- rather than the traditional aggressive course -- could help with a central challenge they face: that many cancers evolve and...
Nano-Scale 'Dream Team': 3 MIT Professors Use Tiniest Of Tools Against Cancer
Three MIT professors are innovating at the tiniest possible scale, developing tools to see, target and kill cancer cells before they can cause any harm.
Dana-Farber Chief: Federal Cuts Could Threaten ‘World’s Greatest Biomedicine Ecosystem’ In Boston
"The nearly half a billion dollars in Massachusetts NIH grants likely to vanish under the Trump budget are a serious concern for our innovation-based economy. At Dana-Farber alone, we could...