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Showing 1 - 10Overcoming Barriers to Alleviating Cancer-Related Pain in Ethiopia
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 70% of deaths from cancer occur in low- and middle-income countries, where late-stage presentation and inaccessibility to diagnosis and treatment are common.1 In the sub-Saharan African country of Ethiopia, cancer is becoming an...
A Peaceful Transformation: The Origin of the Frederick National Laboratory
JUST 2 MONTHS before Congress passed what to this day is America’s most sweeping anticancer legislation, President Richard Nixon came to Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, to declare his administration’s historic commitment to the fight. “I have come here today for the purpose of making an...
Smashing the Glass Ceiling in Medicine
IT IS A SAD TRUTH that academic medicine, like many other professions, has a glass ceiling that hampers its ambitions. In medicine, this glass ceiling blocks women and minority faculty from reaching the highest ranks of leadership. Even if the root cause is not yet known, we want to eliminate...
Celebrating ASCO 2016 Awards Recipients
Peter Paul Yu, MD, FACP, FASCO, Immediate Past President of ASCO and Chair of the Special Awards Selection Committee, announced the recipients of this year’s special awards. “The exceptional accomplishments of each of our awardees reflect their exemplary dedication to furthering cancer research and ...
2016 Special Awards: Researchers and Scientists Recognized for Significant Contributions to Cancer Care
Researchers, patient advocates, and global oncology community leaders dedicated to enhancing cancer prevention, treatment, and patient care will be honored with ASCO’s highest honor, its Special Awards, during the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting. Among this year’s awardees are a lung cancer luminary who...
American Association for Advancement of Science Elects New Fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has identified 388 individuals who have been named AAAS Fellows. These individuals have been recognized by their peers for their efforts to advance science or its applications. The new AAAS Fellows, whose names were published in the...
V. Craig Jordan, PhD, to Join MD Anderson Cancer Center
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has announced that V. Craig Jordan, PhD, will join the institution in October 2014 as a Professor in Breast Medical Oncology and Molecular and Cellular Oncology. Dr. Jordan will focus on the new biology of estrogen-induced cell death with the goal...
Radiation Oncologist Stephen Hahn, MD, to Join MD Anderson
Stephen Hahn, MD, has been named as the Division Head of Radiation Oncology and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He joins MD Anderson on January 1, 2015. Dr. Hahn comes to MD Anderson from the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman...
MD Anderson Names Patrick Hwu, MD, Head of Cancer Medicine
Patrick Hwu, MD, Chair of Melanoma Medical Oncology and Sarcoma Medical Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, has been named Division Head of Cancer Medicine. He will take over from Richard Champlin, MD, who has been acting Division Head on an ad interim basis. Dr. ...
George Wilding, MD, Named Vice Provost for Clinical and Interdisciplinary Research at MD Anderson
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is pleased to announce the appointment of George Wilding, MD, as Vice Provost for Clinical and Interdisciplinary Research, effective September 1. Prior to joining MD Anderson, Dr. Wilding served on the institution’s external advisory board. He also...
