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Phaedra Ferrini, 24, metastatic paraganglioma, Boston, with Kimberly Perez , MD, Co-Director of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Gastrointestinal Clinical Trials Program, Senior Physician, Dana-Farber, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical Sc
Manage episode 434212528 series 2447275
Phaedra was 14 years old and sitting in her high school nurse’s office. The nurse noticed her pupils were dilated different sizes and called Phaedra’s mom, recommending she get checked out by a doctor. At the hospital, it was discovered that they had a benign tumor, which was promptly resected. Scans a few years later at 17 indicated that there were no signs of the cancer coming back.
Dr. Kimberly Perez, MD is a member of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Cancer Center Gastrointestinal Oncology and Cancer Genetics and Prevention disease centers. She is a Senior Physician in Medical Oncology at Dana-Farber, an Associate Physician in Medical Oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, co-Director of the Dana-Farber Gastrointestinal Clinical Trials program, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
548 episodes
Manage episode 434212528 series 2447275
Phaedra was 14 years old and sitting in her high school nurse’s office. The nurse noticed her pupils were dilated different sizes and called Phaedra’s mom, recommending she get checked out by a doctor. At the hospital, it was discovered that they had a benign tumor, which was promptly resected. Scans a few years later at 17 indicated that there were no signs of the cancer coming back.
Dr. Kimberly Perez, MD is a member of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Cancer Center Gastrointestinal Oncology and Cancer Genetics and Prevention disease centers. She is a Senior Physician in Medical Oncology at Dana-Farber, an Associate Physician in Medical Oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, co-Director of the Dana-Farber Gastrointestinal Clinical Trials program, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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