#dana farber

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The Daybreakers at The Fallout Shelter

Great music for a great cause

The Daybreakers were the featured entertainment for the Dana Farber Walk for Cancer Fundraiser which was held at The Extended Play Sessions – Fallout Shelter in Norwood, MA on October 20, 2023.The group features Kyle Murphy, Matt Schairer, Matt Caporale, and Kevin Zahner.It was a night of great music for a wonderful cause and the audience thoroughly enjoyed every moment.

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METHUEN, Mass. — Union nurses at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute-Merrimack Valley are holding a one-day strike over their contract status. About three dozen nurses picketed at the facility in Methuen until 5 p.m. Wednesday over better pay and benefits, closer to what their colleagues in Boston make. Union nurses said executives at Dana-Farber have "refused to make reasonable compromises" and threatened to lock nurses out after the strike is over. They said the hospital is now spending money on replacement nurses.

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(via Thursday Thoughts: Somedays, I'm Glad to be Bald)

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Another reason to hate Crowdstrike: it seems like nearly everybody who had to cancel their doctor's appointments the day the computers at DFCI got bricked rescheduled for one week later, which was yesterday, meaning the pharmacy had double the workload from both its normal flow of work and also last Friday's getting pushed back. Man, was yesterday a bad day to be a pharmtech at DFCI.

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More than 50 research papers published by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), a prestigious teaching center affiliated with Harvard Medical School, are under review this week following online claims that their images and data had been manipulated.

Sholto David, a British molecular biologist and blogger, wrote a post for the independent research integrity blog For Better Science on January 2, in which he accuses researchers at the institute of “data forgery.” The long and at times scathing blog post featured images such as protein bands, data plots and PCR results from the papers, which David alleges were manipulated via copy and paste or Photoshop. The studies in question had been published between 1999 and 2017.

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🎗️ Christina Ladany's Jimmy Fund Walk Video Story

Reading resident, Christina Ladany, registered for the Boston Marathon® Jimmy Fund Walk to raise money for cancer research and to stop this deadly disease. “I am walking for myself and all that have/had cancer,” Christina explains. I have more strength now after the chemo and I am able to do at least the 5k this year.” This will be Christina’s first year walking. I sat down with Christina…

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Non-Profit Organization

Brooke Marion

I chose the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for the assignment. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a treatment and research center in Boston, Massachusetts, for both children and adults who are undergoing Chemotherapy procedures. They've always been active on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. On all social media platforms, they have collectively gathered 570k followers and an average of 300 likes per post. However, when it comes to examining vanity metrics, there is still space for improvement. Vanity metrics are measurements that make a brand look good on the surface but may not always give useful insights into the company's true performance. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute vanity metrics include the number of followers, likes, shares, and comments on their social media accounts.

To enhance these measures, the institution should begin by emphasizing interaction rather than the number of followers or likes. They might produce more interactive material that encourages their audience to give feedback, like, and share their content to promote the organization and the cause for which they are fighting. This might involve asking questions, creating polls, and initiating conversations about cancer research, treatment, and prevention. Creating polls seems to be a great option because it allows the audience to interact with the profile as well as give feedback/answers to questions they want answered or discussed. They will boost interaction with their audience as a result, increasing the chance that their material will be shared, liked, and commented on.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute could use sentiment analysis to evaluate the opinion of their audience towards their brand for advanced metrics. This might give insights into their audience's feelings and thoughts about their brand, allowing them to better their content and communication techniques.

To monitor the behavior of their audience after clicking on their social media pages, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute could utilize measures such as time spent on their website, bounce rate, and session duration. Analytics will rise by posting content that promotes the organization as well as the research they do. These analytics might assist them in determining which social media platforms are bringing the most traffic to their website and which need to be improved. This can also help them choose which platform to put more time into hoping it will bring in a larger audience who they can help. 

Dana-Farber's Twitter is their second most followed account but seems to have the smallest interaction of all platforms. The advanced metric rate of their Twitter account used to outshine the other social accounts since they used to constantly respond to their audience’s questions and interact with other organizations that worked with them. If they wanted to fix this, they could start responding to their following again and rebuild viewership by doing so. Facebook is Dana-Farber’s current most followed and supported platform with a following of 427k and an average of 300 likes per post. The behavioral metrics on their Facebook account seem to be much better than others due to the audience difference on Facebook. They have identified the audience they are presenting to and found out how to promote their content successfully. 

Finally, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute should work on developing interesting content that encourages their audience to connect with their brand to boost their vanity metrics. They should also assess the efficacy of their content and communication strategy using advanced, channel, and behavioral analytics. They will be able to strengthen their social media presence and, as a result, bring more visitors to their website.

Sources:

For patients & families. Dana. (n.d.). https://www.dana-farber.org/for-patients-and-families/why-dana-farber/quality-and-patient-safety/measuring-quality-and-safety/publicly-reported-measures/ 

https://twitter.com/DanaFarber?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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Three doses of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine associated with better outcomes for patients with cancer

Study Title: Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections among patients with cancer following two and three doses of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines Publication (online): The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, February 13, 2023 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute author: Toni Choueiri, MD; Chris Labaki, MD; Ziad Bakouny, MD, MSc Summary: Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections following vaccination against COVID-19 are of…

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A Fundraiser for Dana Farber at The Fallout Shelter

A Walk to raise money to cure cancer

The Dana Farber Walk for Cancer Fundraiser at The Extended Play Sessions – Fallout Shelter in Norwood, MA. on October 20, 2023.The event which was hosted by Tim Hoegler, Peter Bamber, Lynne Webster, and Clinton Oxley raised thousands of dollars to help in finding a cure for cancer.

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ast year I was contacted by Jacob Covey, an Art Director with Wizards of the Coast, to work on a special Magic:The Gathering card project to honor Sheldon Menery, a player and judge credited as the 'Godfather of Commander” format for the game.

Sheldon was in a fight against throat cancer and Wizards' wanted to get this commission (a portrait of Sheldon casting one of his favorite instants Inkshield) out as quickly as possible. It was an honor to be considered by Sheldon for this project, as unknowingly he had chosen another person affected by cancer.

I was a cancer survivor myself (testicular cancer, 33 years ago as a young man) and embraced this portrayal of Sheldon as a way to pour my love of painting and appreciation of the game into this image, and to celebrate our mutual fight against cancer.

Unfortunately Sheldon lost his battle back in September, 2023 as I was working on this card.

I was saddened to now be creating a memorial portrait, a tribute to someone who has helped give great pleasure to millions through his dedication to Magic.

In Sheldon's honor and in his spirit of helping others, I will be auctioning off this portrait with all proceeds going to benefit the American Cancer Society (Sheldon's preferred charity) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (my preferred choice).

May we see the day when cancer is defeated.

Details on the auction will follow in approximately another week.

Sheldon Menery - Inkshield

20" x 16" Oil on Panel

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(via Monday Motivation: "It's for Them, Not Me")

[robynochs]

Happy #BiVisibilityMonth! Here's where I'll be speaking this September:

16-17th: Iowa State University 24th: JPMorganChase 25th: Dana Farber Cancer Institute 26th: Docusign

Visit my newly redesigned website for more information or to invite me to speak.

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Major in Melanoma

A zebrafish model reveals how the growth factor TGF-β plays a pivotal role in the progression and spread of the aggressive skin cancer melanoma, including how it affects the immune response

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Haley R Noonan and Alexandra M Thornock, and colleagues

Stem Cell Program and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, June 2024

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