Letter from Bonnie McGuire Jones
Cancer Research Cuts Hit Home
My husband, like many men in their 70s, has prostate cancer. Unlike many of them, however, his biopsy resulted in a Gleason score for which there are no research findings that point to the most effective treatment. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, a hospital and research center affiliated with Harvard Medical School, has been studying cancers like his.
We have made three trips to Dana-Farber since his biopsy. His treatments are being conducted by an MD/PhD whose lab can analyze his response to treatments and offer doctors even better “best practices” to treat the 250,000 men in America who are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year.
My husband’s treatments will conclude before summer, but his doctor may not have the opportunity to add my husband’s experience to life-saving research for the benefit of others. The Trump Administration has frozen $2.2 billion of research funding and is reviewing an additional $8.7 billion of research funding to Harvard University and its affiliated hospitals.
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