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Smider, a member of the Dana Farber Marathon Challenge team, plans to start his trek at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 18 and run the Boston Marathon course four times through, finishing the first three just in time to start the official race on Monday morning...
...Ellen M. Farber ’13, who did FIRST with her high school in Texas, shed some light on the motorized mayhem’s mission. “So, there’s the term ‘coopertition,’” said Farber. “Everyone helps each other but in the end there’s still a competition to go to.” She hesitated when asked about the prize. “Bragging rights? It’s not so much about winning as it is about learning...
Twenty-one teams participated in the 3 on 3 tournament, which was organized by the Harvard Cancer Society and brought in over $300 for the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based charity that supports cancer research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
...researchers found that a large number of SCNAs identified in individual cancer types are present over several cancers of different origin. The common SCNAs may act as important markers in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, according to Rameen Beroukhim, a clinical fellow in oncology at Harvard-affiliate Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
...Dana-Farber research is the first of its kind. Part of an ongoing, larger examination of pediatric palliative care, the survey asked the parents about their attitudes toward hastening the death of their children (by the time of the study, the children's deaths had occurred between one and 10 years earlier) as well as their more current reactions to two hypothetical vignettes about children with fatal cancers. One vignette involved uncontrollable pain at the end of life, while the other involved irreversible coma. In both situations, the parents became more likely to endorse hastening death as the level...