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  • Dr. Huma Rana joins other Boston medical experts to say the latest science backs up Angelina Jolie's choice to undergo a preventive double mastectomy.

Tags: BreastCancer, Genetics, Prevention

  • Dr. Sharon Bober said there are women who undergo a preventive double mastectomy, but never tell because they may not get the same support as women diagnosed with breast cancer.

Tags: BreastCancer, Genetics, Prevention

  • Dr. Judy Garber spoke about Angelina Jolie's decision to undergo a preventive double mastectomy.

Tags: BreastCancer, Genetics, Prevention

  • Dr. Richard Stone discusses how mutations in a gene involved in the production of white blood cells may improve the diagnosis — and perhaps treatment — of two rare blood cancers.

Tags: Genetics, Leukemia

  • A new study co-authored by Dr. Rameen Beroukhim may enable researchers to identify biological pathways that lead to endometrial cancer, as well as possible approaches to treatment.

Tags: BasicResearch, Genomics, GynecologicCancers

  • A study by Dr. Tracy Balboni shows terminally ill patients who receive spiritual support from religious communities tend to get more intensive end-of-life care.

Tags: EndOfLife, PopulationScience

  • Former Dana-Farber president Dr. Emil Frei III died at his home in Illinois. Dr. Frei's trailblazing use of combination chemotherapy — in which anticancer drugs are administered simultaneously rather than singly — helped make certain cancers curable for the first time.

  • Dr. Emil "Tom" Frei III, former Dana-Farber president and childhood cancer treatment pioneer, has died.

  • Former Dana-Farber president Dr. Emil "Tom" Frei III, who developed treatment that cured childhood leukemia, died on April 30 at age 89.

  • Dr. David Steensma comments on genomic studies cataloging the mutations that drive endometrial cancer and acute myeloid leukemia.

Tags: Genomics, Leukemia

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