COURTESY OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE
Breast cancer surgeon Carolyn Kaelin of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, died last month (July 28) of brain cancer. She was 54.
“We will miss her warmth, energy, intelligence, compassion, and humor,” Eric Winer, director of the Breast Oncology Center at Dana-Farber said in a statement. “She was uncompromising in her pursuit of truly outstanding care for each and every patient.”
At 34, Kaelin became the founding director of the Comprehensive Breast Health Center at Brigham and Women’s. “I was quite taken with her enthusiasm and patient-centeredness,” Michael Zinner, the hospital’s chief of surgery, told The New York Times.
In 2003, Kaelin herself was diagnosed breast cancer. After battling the disease, neuropathy in her hands forced her to retire ...
