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Brain cancer patient David O'Donoghue is surrounded by some of the people from Wellspring, a support centre for people with cancer: from left, Liz Thomson, program director Dr. Mavis Himes, Ava Zaritzky, Ileaa Esfakis, Marny Robinette and Jane De Jong.
Brain cancer patient David O'Donoghue is surrounded by some of the people from Wellspring, a support centre for people with cancer: from left, Liz Thomson, program director Dr. Mavis Himes, Ava Zaritzky, Ileaa Esfakis, Marny Robinette and Jane De Jong.

Brain cancer patient David O'Donoghue is surrounded by some of the people from Wellspring, a support centre for people with cancer: from left, Liz Thomson, program director Dr. Mavis Himes, Ava Zaritzky, Ileaa Esfakis, Marny Robinette and Jane De Jong.

Date2/18/1993
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  • Brain cancer patient David O'Donoghue is surrounded by some of the people from Wellspring, a support centre for people with cancer: from left, Liz Thomson, program director Dr. Mavis Himes, Ava Zaritzky, Ileaa Esfakis, Marny Robinette and Jane De Jong.
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Dr. Robert Bruce, Is to direct the new Toronto branch of an international institute for cancer research funded by billionaire Daniel Ludwig. Bruce will continue his search for the cause of cancers linked to diet, because these have a chance of being prevented. There is some problem with diet and our approach will be to find out what that problem is, Bruce says.
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