Breast Oncology
Breast Oncology
The Breast Oncology Center at the Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancers at Dana-Farber provides state-of-the-art and compassionate care for breast cancer patients. Our breast cancer clinicians are committed to providing your patients with the best and most individualized treatment options available, including the latest medical oncology, surgical options, breast reconstruction, and radiation therapy.
Our focused and specialized services include programs for: young adults with breast cancer, metastatic breast cancer, inflammatory breast cancer, breast cancer during pregnancy, breast and ovarian cancer genetics and prevention, older adults with breast cancer, patients with breast cancer brain metastases, breast cancer in men, and ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).
View Treatment Guidelines and Other Resources Learn About Breast Cancer BreakthroughsFeatured Content |view more
A phase 1 study aiming to test tolerability of combination therapy with trastuzumab deruxtecan and olaparib in Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2)-expressing malignancies—including ovarian and uterine cancers—found a tolerable ...
Select presentations by Dana-Farber faculty include a promising clinical trial chemotherapy and RAS inhibitor combination for pancreatic patients, new research on mapping the tumor microbiome using the presence of microorganisms and encouraging ...
Immune Activity Shift a Key Early Step in Breast Cancer Formation
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute research provides the first appreciation of the role of special immunosuppressive regulatory T cells in paving a path for precancerous ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) to turn into breast cancer.
Treatment Guideline: Vaginal Estrogen in Patients with History of Breast Cancer
The Breast Oncology Center held meetings to discuss recommendations regarding the use of vaginal estrogen in patients with a history of breast cancer.
Cancer spreads, or metastasizes, when tumor cells shed from a primary solid tumor, for example in the breast, and embed in other organs, such as the lung, liver, and brain, and begin to grow.
The addition of a CDK 4/6 inhibitor to standard therapy in patients with “double-positive” metastatic breast cancer significantly extended the time the disease did not progress according to data published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
