How serious is FDA warning about revolutionary blood-cancer treatment?

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher details promise, peril of CAR T-cell therapy, which enlists body’s immune system to fight disease.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Dec. 7, 2023 ~10 min

Study finds link between breastfeeding, rise in adult colorectal cancer risk

Mothers should not halt practice of breastfeeding, which offers many benefits to infants, as much more research is still needed, scientists say.

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
Oct. 13, 2023 ~9 min


The social life of a dermatologist

It might be jarring when a friend, or complete stranger, pulls down their shirt while you’re trying to eat dinner. It’s also an opportunity.

Alvin Powell • harvard
June 27, 2023 ~7 min

Excerpt from Barrett Rollins’ ‘In Sickness’

Barrett Rollins, wife Jane Weeks were Dana-Farber stars who kept her cancer secret nearly to end.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Nov. 30, 2022 ~12 min

Bringing the cancer fight back down to earth

Halving deaths and other Biden goals are in reach, experts say, but let’s forget about "moonshot" and focus on resources and prevention.

Alvin Powell • harvard
March 30, 2022 ~9 min

Hope for breast cancer patients, but with a cruel caveat

New target for old antibiotic rooted in decades-long effort to unlock secrets of lethal childhood disease.

Alvin Powell • harvard
March 14, 2022 ~13 min

Vitamin D may protect against young-onset colorectal cancer

Consuming higher amounts of vitamin D – mainly from dietary sources – may help protect against developing young-onset colorectal cancer or precancerous colon polyps, according to the first study to show such an association.

Richard Saltus • harvard
Aug. 17, 2021 ~5 min

Experts lower recommended age for colorectal cancer screening

Experts lower the recommended age for colorectal cancer screening.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
May 18, 2021 ~6 min


Researchers reprogram cells to fight brain cancer

Regulatory T cells in the brain can be reprogrammed from guarding glioblastoma tumors to attacking them from within.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
May 13, 2021 ~5 min

Personalized melanoma vaccines show lasting effects

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and affiliated institutions have shown that a personalized cancer vaccine that is specific to an individual’s tumor has lasting effects, detecting vaccine-related immune system changes years after the vaccine was given.

Alvin Powell • harvard
April 1, 2021 ~12 min

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