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Excerpted from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute blog
By Katherine Walsh
“…My world came to a screeching halt in September 2010, when at age 23, just one year after beginning my graduate studies at Harvard Medical School, I was diagnosed with ALL – acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Instead of being in a Dana-Farber lab conducting cutting-edge research, I began an intensive two-year chemotherapy regimen, which required many hospital stays, debilitating treatments, and a move back home with my parents…”
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