Cold sweats are sudden sweating episodes unrelated to heat or exertion. Cold sweats make you feel flushed yet chilly and may also cause moist, clammy skin and goosebumps. While usually not a cause for ...

The trigger for facial flushing can range from common conditions like fever, menopause, and changes in body temperatures to uncommon ones like carcinoid syndrome (caused by a rare, slow-growing cancer ...

Clinical Director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Center and Director of the Program in Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumors at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. "It was encouraging to see that ...

The study was led by Jennifer Chan, MD, MPH, clinical director of the gastrointestinal cancer center and director of the program in carcinoid and neuroendocrine tumors at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

“The characteristics of NET vary widely from patient to patient, and very few treatment options have demonstrated the ability to improve outcomes across such a heterogeneous population,” said Jennifer ...

The thymus is a primary lymphoid organ critical for the development of mature T cells from hematopoietic progenitors. A highly structured organ, the thymus contains distinct regions, precise ...

One of the feats of adaptive immunity is its ability to recognize foreign pathogens while sparing the self. During maturation in the thymus, T cells are selected through the binding properties of ...

This perspective offers the fresh insight that chemotherapy-induced thymic involution, which is characterized by the extensive obliteration of the sensitive thymic epithelial cell (TEC) compartment, ...