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Pediatric Fertility Preservation Program
At Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, we value the importance of fertility and reproductive health as it relates to long-term quality of life. As treatment for childhood cancers and blood disorders have improved, more and more survivors are entering their reproductive years and thinking about starting families of their own. The fertility preservation team will work closely with patients’ primary care team to ensure that a fertility consultation takes place as a part of the patient’s comprehensive work-up.
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Bladder Cancer Advances
Dana-Farber's Guru Sonpavde, MD discusses two studies with promising results. One study looks at pre-operative therapy, the other study compares an antibody-drug conjugate to chemotherapy in urothelial carcinoma.
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Choueiri and Motzer Chat on CheckMate-9ER and Other RCC Research
In our exclusive interview, Dr. Choueiri and Dr. Motzer discuss the clinical implications of the phase 3 CheckMate-9ER trial in advanced renal cell carcinoma and how to best use the combination in practice.
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Expert Panel Issues Recommendations for Addressing Cancer Inequities
New recommendations co-developed by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute call for a significant expansion of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers to understand the causes of inequities in cancer care and a commitment to building sustained community partnerships to reduce them.
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In Landmark Study, an Arthritis Drug Appears to Prevent Deadly Acute Graft-versus-host Disease after Bone Marrow Transplant
An immune-suppressing drug normally used to treat rheumatoid arthritis could make bone marrow transplant safer, report researchers at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center. In a Phase 2 multi-center trial, the drug abatacept (ORENCIA®) reduced rates of severe, acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and boosted rates of survival without acute GVHD or relapse in patients with leukemia and other blood cancers.
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First FDA Approval of CAR T-Cell Therapy for Multiple Myeloma Marks Milestone for Patients
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted its first approval of a CAR T-cell therapy for adults with multiple myeloma, bringing welcome hope for patients eligible for the treatment, according to researchers and physicians at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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Trial 20-153: SACI-IO for Hormone Receptor Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer
Why test the combination of Trodelvy and pembrolizumab?
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Study Underscores Need for Multidisciplinary Care for COVID-19 Long-Haulers
Physicians across the country have analyzed the emerging scientific data about the long-term effects of COVID-19, creating an initial knowledge base about the clinical experiences of so-called “long-haulers” – patients with COVID-19 who experience prolonged symptoms and/or the emergence of new ones well after the initial viral infection has resolved. A comprehensive review published today in Nature Medicine offers an initial glimpse of the multi-organ effects of long-term COVID-19 and suggests a framework for the care of COVID-19 long-haulers through dedicated, multidisciplinary clinics.
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New Treatments for Bladder Cancer Patients
Bladder cancer therapies, once very limited, now offer more options to treat patients than ever before. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Bladder Cancer Director, Guru Sonpavde, MD, details new treatments and research initiatives on the horizon for bladder cancer.
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Dana-Farber Research Leads to Better Understanding of the Immune System in Kidney Cancer
In the last two decades, immunotherapy has emerged as a leading treatment for advanced renal carcinoma cancer (more commonly known as kidney cancer). This therapy is now part of the standard of care, but it doesn’t work for all patients, and almost all patients, no matter how they respond initially, become more resistant to treatment over time.
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New Targeted Agent Achieves Impressive Response Rate in Trial with Patients with Uterine Serous Carcinoma
In its first clinical trial in patients with a hard-to-treat form of uterine cancer, a targeted drug that subjects tumor cells to staggering levels of DNA damage caused tumors to shrink in nearly one-third of patients, investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reported.
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Next Questions: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Jennifer Brown, MD, PhD, shares about multiple treatments and drug therapies and how long patients can remain on them while determining the best outcomes.