Tag: Barrett Rollins

Nation & World
‘What kind of husband could stand by idly for four years while his wife’s breast cancer grew?’

Barrett Rollins, wife Jane Weeks were Dana-Farber stars who kept her cancer secret nearly to end

November 30, 2022

10 minutes
Nation & World
A data bank to battle cancer

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are collaborating on a massive, long-term effort to collect and analyze tumor tissue from 10,000 cancer patients annually. The researchers hope the data will enable them to understand better how tumors behave, while providing opportunities to test new therapies.

December 1, 2011

4 minutes
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Gene chips aid drug search in rare cancers

When Kimberly Stegmaier was a pediatric oncology fellow at Dana-Farber and Children’s Hospital Boston six years ago, she says,”I was struck by how poorly our young patients with AML (acute…

April 7, 2006

2 minutes
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Remote-control immunity up close

When we receive a wound, disease-fighting cells rush to the scene to do combat with bodily invaders. But how does this work? When we receive a wound, cells near the…

November 30, 2001

1 minute