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A pioneer in connecting the development of cancer with genetic abnormalities, Janet D. Rowley, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, died from complications of ovarian cancer on Dec. 17 at her home. She was 88.
Dec 19, 2013 · She died Tuesday at age 88 at her home in the Chicago suburb of Hyde Park from complications of ovarian cancer. Advertisement.
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Janet Davison Rowley (April 5, 1925 – December 17, 2013) was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers, thus proving that cancer is a genetic disease.
Janet D. Rowley, M.D., died on December 17, 2013, from complications of ovarian cancer. Speaking about her own cancer experience as recently as November when she accepted an award from the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation, Janet said, ‘‘Cancer can be cured if we work hard enough.’’.
Jan 22, 2014 · Geneticist who discovered that broken chromosomes cause cancer. Janet Rowley, the 'matriarch of modern cancer genetics', transformed our understanding of cancer. In the 1960s she would cut out...
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OBITUARY. Janet Davison Rowley, M.D. (1925–2013) Susanne M. Gollin1,* and Shalini C. Reshmi2.
Dec 18, 2013 · CHICAGO (AP) — Dr. Janet Rowley, a pioneer in cancer genetics research, has died at age 88. Rowley spent most of her career at the University of Chicago, where she also obtained her medical...
