Cancer
Why Mental Health is a Crucial—But Often Overlooked— Part of Cancer Care
Mental health can have a significant impact on your quality of life during cancer treatment and your treatment outcomes.
Read MoreRare Tumor Case Highlights Potential for New Wave in Oncology
A clinical trial testing a new therapy for cancer has given a 28-year-old patient a path towards a more normal life.
Read MoreResearchers Unplugged: Meet a Mass General Brigham Investigator Working to Make Radiation Therapy Safer and More Effective
Carlos Huesa-Berral, PhD, is using computer modeling to increase the precision of radiation treatment and reduce side effects.
Read MoreHow the Thymus, a Once Overlooked Organ, is Quietly Influencing Cancer Risk and Longevity
Two teams of researchers at Mass General Brigham are redefining the importance of the thymus in adult human health.
Read MoreA New Frontier for Focused Ultrasound: Prying Open the Blood-Brain Barrier to Improve Treatment for Brain Cancer Patients
A combination of microbubbles and focused ultrasound treatment helped to open the blood brain barrier and improve the uptake of anti-cancer durgs.
Read MoreAn International Research Effort Led by Mass General Brigham is Pioneering Breakthroughs in Rare Blood Cancers
The PETAL consortium is a first-of-its-kind global network of more than 100 investigators and 20 research sites.
Read MoreMeet Seven Mass General Brigham Researchers Working to Develop New Therapies and Treatments for Cancer
Learn more about their unique approaches to improving care for cancer patients.
Read MoreThe Path To Creating the World’s Smallest Laser Light Show, and How Researchers Are Using It to Track Cancer Cells
If you are a fan of sci-fi like myself, believe in aliens like my boss does, or are a cat parent that likes to get in some cat-ercise, lasers are probably a big part of your life (or at least your cat’s). But besides the occasional blaster or laser pointer, you may not think there…
Read MoreHow a Personal Story Fueled a Researcher’s Passion to Pursue Breast Cancer Research
Mass General researcher Matt Rosen, PhD, is all too familiar with the devastating effects of a late breast cancer diagnosis.
Read MoreWorld Cancer Research Day: How MGH Research Scholars are Helping to Move the Field Forward
The unrestricted funding provided by the MGH Research Scholar awards is enabling creative new approaches to cancer research.
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