The Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation pledged $1 million to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. The funds will support the cancer institute’s radiation oncology center, which opened in July.
Silverstein during his surgical oncology fellowship, c. 1972This month on the Cancer History Project Podcast, Melvin J. Silverstein, Medical Director of Hoag Breast Center and the Gross Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery at USC, sat down with Stacy Wentworth, radiation oncologist and medical historian, to reflect on his career—and founding the first free-standing breast center.
