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
"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
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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 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 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 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 |
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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
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
"...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
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
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