Cancer

Scientists including Dr. David Tuveson (above) of Professor Tyler Jacks' lab in the Center for Cancer Research has found that a leukemia drug also is effective in the lab against a type of abdominal cancer called gastrointestinal stromal tumor.

Leukemia drug attacks abdominal cancer cells in the lab, MIT researchers find

Basic research turns out to have quick, dramatic results for patients

August 15, 2001

Scientists build better mouse model for cancer

May 9, 2001

To detect and destroy an enemy missile, microwave energy is targeted on the missile while simultaneously nullifying enemy jammers (left). To kill a cancerous tumor (right), microwave energy is focused on the tumor while simultaneously nullifying any energy that would overheat surrounding healthy tissue.

MIT radar research used to treat breast cancer enters Phase II trials

January 10, 2001

MIT radar technology to treat breast cancer

December 20, 2000

At Monday's inauguration of the Fission Converter Epithermal Neutron Irradiation Facility, Professor Otto Harling (center) discusses the facility with Dr. Constantine Maletskos (left), a member of the MIT Reactor Safeguards Committee, and Lincoln Clark Jr., former associate director of the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory.

Ceremony inaugurates cancer treatment facility at MIT

December 6, 2000

Professor Richard O. Hynes, director of the Center for Cancer Research, holds a glass slide containing thousands of bits of DNA that have been exposed to genetic material from tumor cells. He and former postdoctoral fellow Edwin A. Clark (left), now at Millennium Predictive Medicine in Cambridge, collaborated with other scientists to identify the gene responsible for cancer metastasis.

Scientists identify gene responsible for tumor metastasis in cancer

August 9, 2000

MIT researchers identify the genes responsible for cancer cells' ability to migrate within the body

August 2, 2000

MIT 'Star Wars' technology may treat breast cancer

June 7, 2000

MIT 'Star Wars' technology applied to breast cancer

June 5, 2000

Lecture on aging examines colon cancer

April 26, 2000

MIT researchers create noninvasive new methods for early cancer diagnosis

Ability to detect invisible, early-stage disease could save lives

March 23, 2000

Winner of the James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, Professor Robert A. Weinberg of biology delivers the Killian Lecture in Wong Auditorium.

Weinberg displays science acumen and humor in Killian talk

March 15, 2000

NCI creates consortium to develop mouse models of human cancers

January 26, 2000

DNA chip method could aid in cancer diagnosis

October 20, 1999

Dr. Richard D. Klausner, director of the National Cancer Institute, spoke about cancer research on the occasion of the naming celebration of the David H. Koch Biology Building.

Fight against cancer becoming more targeted, NCI head says

October 6, 1999

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