Cathy Eng, professor of gastrointestinal medical oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, was recruited to Vanderbilt University Medical Center as co-leader of the VICC Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Program.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
