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Melanoma Vaccine: Progress and Possibility
A melanoma therapeutic vaccine is a type of personalized cancer vaccine that is intended to train the immune system to fight cancer cells in a way that lasts many years. These novel vaccines are personally tailored to recognize the mutations present in an individual’s tumor cells. They are different from vaccines for infectious diseases, which are typically given to as many people as possible in a community to prevent a virus from spreading. Currently, no personalized melanoma vaccines are approved medicines, though several have been tested in clinical trials. A personalized RNA vaccine has recently shown promising data in patients with high-risk melanoma.
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Immunotherapy Post-Surgery Improves Overall Survival For Kidney Cancer
For the first time in fifty years, results from a phase 3 randomized, placebo-controlled trial have shown an overall survival benefit from an adjuvant therapy in patients with kidney cancer. Treatment with pembrolizumab, an immunotherapy drug, after surgery significantly prolonged overall survival in patients with clear-cell renal-cell carcinoma (ccRCC) at high risk for recurrence, according to an analysis of results from the KEYNOTE-564 study. Pembrolizumab was associated with a 38% reduction in risk of death compared with placebo.
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Kate Dibble, PhD Discusses Ovarian Function Suppression
Dana-Farber's Heather Parsons, MD, MPH, discusses a new study showing liquid biopsy could reliably determine whether a patient's breast cancer is HER2-positive or --negative.
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Paolo Tarantino, MD Discusses RELIEVE Study
Dana-Farber's Paolo Tarantino, MD, presented results from the RELIEVE study showing patients with metastatic breast cancer receiving trastuzumab deruxtecan fared best if they had HER2+ disease or stable HER2-low disease.
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Heather Parsons, MD, MPH Discusses Liquid Biopsy
Dana-Farber's Heather Parsons, MD, MPH, discusses a new study showing liquid biopsy could reliably determine whether a patient's breast cancer is HER2-positive or --negative.
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Psilocybin Eases Depression in Patients with Cancer, Study Finds
For patients with cancer who are suffering from major depression, treatment with psilocybin plus individual and group psychological support can significantly relieve depressive symptoms, a clinical trial has found. In a companion study led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators, trial participants said the treatment experience with psilocybin – a hallucinogenic compound derived from certain mushrooms – created a sense of connection, meaning, and transcendence that aided the healing process.
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Exploring How CAR T-Cell Therapy May Help More Patients
CAR T-cell therapy burst onto the scene as a revolutionary treatment for cancer patients in 2015, when it was introduced in clinical trials primarily for patients with lymphoma and leukemia. Since then, it has transformed the course of disease, primarily for blood cancer patients, with many clinical trials now exploring the approach for solid tumor patients. Through this highly tailored form of immune effector cell (IEC) therapy, typically a patient's own immune cells — known as T cells — are genetically re-engineered to identify and kill cancer cells.
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Dana-Farber Research Publication 01.01.2023
This twice-monthly newsletter highlights the research endeavors at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, noting recently published papers available from PubMed where Dana-Farber faculty are listed as first or senior authors.
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Dana-Farber Research Publication 12.15.2022
This twice-monthly newsletter highlights the research endeavors at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, noting recently published papers available from PubMed where Dana-Farber faculty are listed as first or senior authors.
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Dana-Farber Research Publication 12.1.2022
This twice-monthly newsletter highlights the research endeavors at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, noting recently published papers available from PubMed where Dana-Farber faculty are listed as first or senior authors.
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American Society of Hematology (ASH) 2023
Review presentations and information shared by Dana-Farber physician-scientists at the 66th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting & Exposition in San Diego.
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San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) 2023