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Prevention and Early Detection

  • Tina’s Wish opens new doors in ovarian cancer research

    Tina’s Wish opens new doors in ovarian cancer research

    Ovarian cancer remains one of the most devastating cancers due to diagnosis often coming at a later stage.

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  • National Breast Cancer Foundation

    National Breast Cancer Foundation

    National Breast Cancer Foundation has made generous gifts totaling $155,000 to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute furthering their ongoing support of breast cancer prevention, screening, and treatment, and related community health initiatives. This latest gift is pivotal to advancing our mission to defy cancer and provide equitable care.

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  • Zlotoff Generations Fund

    Zlotoff Generations Fund

    The Zlotoff Generations Fund gifted $250,000 toward a partnership between Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ichilov, the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel’s leading academic medical center and largest public acute care facility. This generosity will support research in AI and advanced breast cancer, as well as work in early detection and clinical education.

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  • From early career to endowed leadership: Larry and Susan Marx fuel early detection

    From early career to endowed leadership: Larry and Susan Marx fuel early detection

    Larry and Susan Marx have always been guided by the conviction that investing in bright minds can shape careers and accelerate breakthroughs.

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  • Cinelli Family Foundation invests in stopping cancer before it starts

    Cinelli Family Foundation invests in stopping cancer before it starts

    Chances of survival increase when cancer is detected early––yet most cancers don’t have screening tests. Elizabeth O’Donnell, MD, and her team at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Centers for Early Detection and Interception are taking steps to fill these critical gaps through clinical trials that evaluate newly developed multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests.

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  • Arbella Pink Day

    Arbella Pink Day

    For 17 years, Arbella Insurance Group employees have turned October pink in support of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute— this tradition continues.

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  • Kenneth and Jodi Bring

    Kenneth and Jodi Bring

    A heartfelt $100,000 gift made by Kenneth and Jodi Bring will support gastrointestinal cancer research in loving memory of Jodi's mother, Reesa Cohen. This generous philanthropic gift empowers the efforts of Brian Wolpin, MD, MPH, the Robert T. & Judith B. Hale Chair in Pancreatic Cancer at Dana-Farber, to advance studies focused on early detection…

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  • Elizabeth Bein

    Elizabeth Bein

    Elizabeth Bein gave a generous gift of $120,000 to establish the Bein Family Fund for Lynch Syndrome Research. The fund will be managed by Matthew B. Yurgelun, MD, FASCO, CGAF. Yurgelen’s team carries out essential early phase work designed to detect early stage urinary cancers, specifically for patients with Lynch syndrome.

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  • Gerry and Sherry Cohen

    Gerry and Sherry Cohen

    A generous $100,000 gift from Sherry and Gerry Cohen to fuel cancer research, prevention, and treatment efforts made an incredible, dual impact by also inspiring community support through Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Winter Matching Challenge. Their steadfast contributions, combined with the groundswell of additional matching appeal donations, have resulted in $1.7 million raised since 2021.

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  • International Myeloma Society

    International Myeloma Society

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Mohammad Rashidian, PhD, received a $250,000 Translational Research Award from the International Myeloma Society and the Paula and Rodger Riney Foundation. This support will advance his innovative work to combat disease relapse in multiple myeloma patients following CAR T-cell therapy.

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