Ruben A. Mesa

Ruben A. Mesa, MD

Clinical leader, Advocate Health National Cancer Service Line, President, Atrium Health Levine Cancer, Executive director, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vice dean for Cancer Programs, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

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ClinicalTrials & Tribulations
It started innocuously enough. I looked in the mirror and noticed a pigmented area on my scalp just into the hairline. Like many patients, thoughts started running through my head: “Maybe it’s nothing.” Looking at my Outlook calendar, it was packed morning-to-night with meetings, patients, and travel, so I decided I would get that spot checked out the minute I had “time.” 
Guest Editorial
As the third-largest nonprofit health system nationwide, Advocate Health treats nearly 50,000 new cancer cases annually. The integrated system has a unique opportunity to leverage its scale to advance complex cancer care and improve health outcomes across its various markets.
FreeObituary
The effort to defeat cancer is a visceral need for each of us, fueled by the memories of the myriad of special individuals we cared for who passed from this earth due to this terrible disease. 
FreeGuest Editorial
Tuesday began a typical day in May in South Texas for me as executive director of the Mays Cancer Center. It was a lovely sunny day for late spring, and at our center we were focused, as we are each day, on the core mission we have had for almost 50 years—to decrease the burden of cancer in San Antonio, South Texas and beyond.

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