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Our Cover Story: A Lump, a Life, and a Leap of Faith
At 18 weeks pregnant, Arlene Brown learned she had triple-negative breast cancer. Within days, she began treatment at Duke Cancer Institute. Today, more than two years later, she’s a proud mom to toddler Andrew — with no signs of recurrence. Photo by Erin Roth.
Our Cover Story: The Next Generation
Gabriella Torres is driven to learn more about cancer because her brother was diagnosed with and sucessfully treated for leukemia when she was a child. Duke's PRIME PREP program helped her get the research experience she needed to becomes a PhD student in the Department of Integrative Immunobiology at Duke University School of Medicine.
Our Cover Story: Stay in the Light
A photo essay by Duke University photographer Jared Lazarus. Here, multiple myeloma survivor Jacqueline Weatherly basks in a snowfall of petals while strolling through Duke Gardens’ Cherry Allée. See the rest of the Many Faces of Cancer on page 4. Cover photo by Jared Lazarus/Duke University Communications.
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Our Cover Story: More Options for People with Blood Cancers
Bone marrow transplantation and other cell therapies save more lives than ever, thanks to advances pioneered at Duke over the last few decades. Read the story on page 4. Illustration by Keith Negley.
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