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    Senior Philanthropy Leadership:
    Melany Duval: Senior Vice President, Chief Philanthropy Officer: 617-632-5866
    Liz DeLucia: Vice President, Principal & Major Gifts: 617-632-6573
    Suzanne Fountain: Vice President, Jimmy Fund: 617-632-3864
    Rebecca Gavin: Vice President, Annual, Planned & Institutional Giving: 617-632-3491
    Jeanne Katz Maxbauer: Vice President, Transformational Gifts & Strategic Initiatives: 857-215-1411
    Rebecca DuFault: Associate Vice President, The Dana-Farber Campaign: 617-632-5524

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  • How Your Support Helps

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    News Releases
    3/31/2023

    Combination therapy a promising option for advanced kidney cancer patients already treated with immunotherapy

    • Research
    • Immunotherapy
    • Kidney Cancer
    Microscopic image of a polyp in the colon, showing clusters of precancerous immature cells. (Image courtesy Pratyusha Bala/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
    News Releases
    3/29/2023

    Sox9 protein enables molecular time travel that can lead to colorectal cancer

    • Research
    • Rectal Cancer
    • Colon Cancer
    • Gastrointestinal Cancer
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    News Releases
    3/29/2023

    Joshua Kraft advocates for prostate cancer screening as he announces he has been treated for the disease

    • Patient Stories, Adult
    • Prostate Cancer
    A new clinical trial around psychedelic-assisted therapy was recently launched by Yvan Beaussant, MD; Roxanne Sholevar, MD; and Zachary Sager, MD, of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at Dana-Farber.
    Insight Blog
    3/27/2023

    New Trial Is First to Explore Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in Hospice Patients

    • Research
    • Psychosocial Oncology
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    Insight Blog
    3/22/2023

    After Brain Cancer, Navy Vet Goes For Gold

    • Patient Stories, Adult
    • Neuro-oncology
    Dana-Farber's Hajime Uno, PhD
    Insight Blog
    3/21/2023

    New Measure Offers Better Way to Estimate Benefit of Therapies in Clinical Trials

    • Research
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    News Releases
    3/20/2023

    Researchers Identify Key Source of T Cell “Exhaustion”

    • CAR T-Cell Therapy
    A 3D illustration of a cancer cell in the process of mitosis. Lactate, previously thought to be a passive by-product of energy consumption in cancer cells, was found to have an active role in promoting mitosis in cancer cell division.
    Insight Blog
    3/20/2023

    Lactate May Have an Active Role in Driving Cancer

    • Cancer Biology
    • Research
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    News Releases
    3/16/2023

    Dana-Farber researchers chart a course for understanding, preventing, and treating young-onset colorectal cancer

    • Research
    • Rectal Cancer
    • Colon Cancer