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7/22/2008
Inside the Institute
DFCI team teaches care in Russia
There is no word in Russia for cancer survivor, explains Yelena Wetherill, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Cancer Biology at Dana-Farber and a native of this vast country where 50 percent of the women diagnosed with breast cancer die from the disease. The closest translation refers to someone who lived through a war. Wetherill and Martha Hayward, a breast cancer survivor and member of the Adult Patient and Family Advisory Council here, set out to change that . . . more >>>

10/01/2007
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: Patient Care/Personal Profile/First Person
A sister's gift leads to breast cancer education
When my sister, Leslie, was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2006, I realized I had not had a mammogram myself in nearly two years. Just as she reached the halfway point in her 16 weeks of chemotherapy, I had to tell her that I had breast cancer, too . . . more >>>

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