YARON S BUTTERFIELD
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​Stories Related to my Cancer Adventure

"The last thing Yaron Butterfield remembers of the moment that changed his life is not being able to speak. At the age of 29, at what felt like the height of his career in genome research, he had an unexplainable headache when he had the seizure nearly 13 years ago. Butterfield, who happens to be a cancer researcher, is a rare long-term survivor of glioblastoma multiforme. His cancer was too deep for surgery, but chemo and radiation kept it at bay and he took the following year to do 'all sorts of crazy things."'
                      - Toronto Star Aug. 2016​
Writer, artist, scientist - Cover story (see pg. 16-18)
International Brain Tumour Alliance - World Edition 2019/2020

15 Years of Hope
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada Story 2019

My story in Radical Remission Project
Healing Story of the Month July 2018
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My letter to Gord Downie (A Canadian icon; singer for Tragically Hip) diagnosed with same brain cancer
Toronto Star 2016

My Story
​Toronto Star 2016

Reflection - My experience of the arts as it contributes to health, healing and wellness
Arts Health Network Canada
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​Article about my cancer experience connecting to art
International Brain Tumour Alliance - World Edition 2016/2017
PDF (small version)

David Kelly Award for Community Service
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada 2015

Art Exhibit - Brain Cancer Got me Thinking
Georgia Straight 2015
Asian Pacific Post 2015 

Book Reviews (from BC Cancer Headlines Newsletter - might need to scroll to end of document)
Not the Last Goodbye / Anti-Cancer  -  Spring 2018
The Priority List -  Winter 2016
A Deadly Intruder -  Spring 2015

Peer Support Program
BCCA Headlines Newsletter Summer 2014

Dealing with a Diagnosis and a Recurrence
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada Story 2014

Ride to Conquer Cancer / Personalized Medicine
CTV News 2013

Question and answer
BCCA Headlines Newsletter Fall 2013
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BCCA fundraising poster
My story 2012

Story on our study on oligodendroglioma
Georgia Straight 2012

Researcher imagines a cure
North Shore News 2012

The Many Volunteer Faces of Spring Sprint
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada Stories 2011

My Cancer Journey
BCCA Headlines Newsletter Fall 2011

Brain-cancer survivor believes in hope (click to enlarge)
Vancouver Sun 2006 

Information Day
BC Cancer Agency News 2006

Fighting Diabetes
​The Province 2005​
Picture

Cracking the SARS Coronavirus Genome

"...from Butterfield's first 'build', it's clear they're on track: one section is almost 6,000 base pairs long and another is 7,000 pair long. For the next five hours, they keep reloading. At 2:30 am, Butterfield hits the 'Eureka' moment. Build 28 comes back in one piece, right down to and including the tell-tale polytale - a long string of 'A's that always marks the end of a piece of messenger RNA.
               For the wet-lab crew, euphoria gives over to exhaustion. They file out to get some sleep. Butterfield keeps working--analyzing, verifying, comparing the completed sequence to others on file. When Stott comes back at 4 am, he startles Butterfield so badly, he is at risk of being impaled on the pen that Butterfield reflexively flings across the room."

                             - BC Business Sept. 2003

BC Team unravels SARS
The Province 2003

​Mission Impossible
​BC Business 2003

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SARS story in (I think only time my photo is in a Chinese magazine)!
Ming Pao Saturday Magazine 2003 

Linux journal article of the SARS sequencing
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6977

Vancouver's first 24 hr internet cafe

In 1995, I was working for an entertainment company where I took care of all advertising media and also built a database to store customer information and bookings  of our products. One day I said to my boss, "we should get an email address."  He said, "yes good idea, but better yet, I want an internet cafe...and you're going to take care of that."

​Gulp! 
       
​And so I took a year off my university studies and jumped right into it...

Net surfers and pinball wizards
Canada Computes 1996

TV picks up the story after we opened the cafe
CTV News 1996

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  • Home
    • My Story
  • About Me...
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      • Stories after diagnosis
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    • Catching the Light
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  • Activities...
    • A Fresh Chapter >
      • Peru 2019
      • Kenya 2024
    • The Human Library
    • Brainiacs
    • Brain Tumour Walk/Run
    • The Marathon
    • Sasquatch Hockey Club
    • Talks & Lectures
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  • Your Story...
    • Brain Tumour Information Day
    • Ourbraincancerstory
    • Patient/Caregiver
    • Healing
    • Links of interest
    • Your Supplements
    • Book Reviews
  • Merchandise