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Study suggests unintended weight loss is warning to see doctor
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
According to a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute study, unintended weight reduction raises the likelihood of receiving a cancer diagnosis during the next year.
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Study reveals unintentional weight loss is a signal to see a doctor
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
According to a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute study, unintentional weight loss increases the probability of receiving a cancer diagnosis within the coming year.
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Three-medicine combination therapy is beneficial in patients with high-ris
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a new, phase 2 clinical trial led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute doctors, a three-medicine combination that drove chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) patients into profound remissions in a clinical study is very beneficial in patients with high-risk variants of the disease.
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Study sheds light on blood cells' precancerous 'clonal expansion'
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], September 22 (ANI): According to a study co-led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, the New York Genome Center, Harvard Medical School, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a typical, spontaneous mutation in blood stem cells, which has been linked to h
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Mechanism linking mutations in the 'dark matter' of the genome to cancer:
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 14 (ANI): A research study by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sheds light on that mystery, providing clues that may link mutations to epigenetic changes, and may point to potential drug targets to reduce the risk for people born with certain genetic mutations.
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Scientists set to investigate new treatment strategy for lymphoma
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], November 29 (ANI): An international collaboration involving researchers from Queen Mary University of London, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), New York and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston has secured a Euro 1M research grant from Dutch blood cancer charity, Lym
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Immunotherapy beneficial for patients with cancer that has spread to tissu
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 20 (ANI): Two new studies indicate that immunotherapy may benefit people with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMD), a rare but serious complication of cancer that has spread to the brain and/or spinal cord. The research was led by investigators at Massachusetts Genera
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Weighing cancer cells to personalise drug choices
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 6 (ANI): Researchers at MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a new way to determine whether individual patients will respond to a specific cancer drug or not. This kind of test could help doctors to choose alternative therapies for patients who don't r
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Coffee associated with improved survival in metastatic colorectal cancer p
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [USA], September 18 (ANI): In a large group of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, consumption of a few cups of coffee a day was associated with longer survival and a lower risk of the cancer worsening, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and other organizations re
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Drug combination may treat advanced kidney cancer
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 18 (ANI): An investigator from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute now says that a combination of two drugs - one of them an immunotherapy agent - could become a new standard, first-line treatment for patients with metastatic kidney cancer. The investigator made the cl
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