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\n Joan Brugge, Ph.D., in her office at Harvard Medical School. “I can’t stop just because of these hardships that we’re facing now,” Brugge says. “We all need to work hard to make a difference for cancer patients and their families. It affects everyone.”
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Inside a cancer research laboratory on the campus of Harvard Medical School, two dozen small jars with pink plastic lids sit on a metal counter. Inside these humble-looking jars is the core of Joan Brugge’s current multiyear research project.<\/p>\n

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Brugge<\/a> lifts up one of the jars and gazes at it with reverence. Each jar holds samples of breast tissue donated by patients after undergoing a tissue biopsy or breast surgery \u2014 samples that may reveal a new way to prevent breast cancer.<\/p>\n

Brugge and her research team have analyzed the cell structure of more than 100 samples.<\/p>\n

Using high-powered microscopes and complex computer algorithms, they diagram each stage in the development of breast cancer: from the first sign of cell mutation to the formation of tiny clusters, well before they are large enough to be considered tumors.<\/p>\n