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Study Reveals How Cancer Immunotherapy Leads to Deadly Form of Heart Inflammation in Some Patients
The researchers found that damage to the heart is driven by a different immune response than the anti-tumor one, suggesting that this serious complication could one day be managed without halting cancer therapy.
Research Spotlight: Researchers Develop SCOPE to Improve Early-Stage Cancer Detection
Cesar M. Castro, MD, MSc, of the Department of Medicine and Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Hakho Lee, PhD, of the Department of Radiology and Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, are co-corresponding authors of a paper published in Nature Biotechnology, “Amplifying mutational profiling of extracellular vesicle mRNA with SCOPE.”
$1 Million Gift to Mass General Cancer Center Will Support Promising Research Conducted by Pioneering Physician-Scientists
The John and Ashley Ranelli Endowed Scholar in Cancer Innovation will activate funding of promising cancer research, helping to advance critical work in the fight against cancer.
Research Spotlight: New Insights into a Rare Liver Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults
Nabeel Bardeesy, PhD, an investigator in the Krantz Center for Cancer Research in the Mass General Cancer Center and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is senior author of a new study in Cancer Discovery, DNAJB1-PRKACA Fusion Drives Fibrolamellar Liver Cancer Through Impaired SIK Signaling and CRTC2/p300-mediated Transcriptional Reprogramming, a collaboration with Taran Gujral at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute in Seattle.
Research Spotlight: Assessing the Effectiveness of Telehealth-Based Palliative Care Services for Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer
Researchers demonstrated the equivalence of the effect of delivering early palliative care via video versus in-person visits on quality of life in patients with advanced lung cancer.
Mass General Brigham Releases Vision for Integrated, Patient-Centered Cancer Care
Newly defined strategy will extend the frontier for research-driven excellence in cancer care across all patients and across all communities.
Individualized Cancer Therapy Demonstrates Safety and Sustained Immune Responses | Massachusetts General Hospital
A study led by researchers at Mass General Brigham has found that an individualized cancer therapy tailored to the unique tumor profiles of patients with melanoma and lung cancer was well-tolerated and boosted immune activity.
A New Proposed Lung Cancer Screening Guideline Could Eliminate Racial Disparities and Increase Opportunities for Early Lung Cancer Detection
The findings challenge the use of pack-year smoking history in determining lung cancer screening eligibility and support the use of smoking duration cutoffs instead.
Research Spotlight: A New Pathway for Viral Mimicry Underlying the Anti-Cancer Mechanism of Mutant Isocitrate Dehydrogenase (MIDH1) Inhibition
Researchers report a new pathway underlying the anti-cancer mechanism of mIDH1 inhibitors, involving the process of “viral mimicry.”
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