A curious piece of paper hangs in a frame outside the director’s office at University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center on the second floor of the General Hospital.
Every summer since 2010, ten undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds get the opportunity to explore any curiosities they might have about careers in medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
On Nov. 24, 2003, an article in The Boston Globe told the story of a patient’s remarkable response to gefitinib, a drug that had recently been approved by FDA.
City of Hope has received a $150 million gift from entrepreneurs and philanthropists A. Emmet Stephenson Jr. and his daughter Tessa Stephenson Brand to create a program focused on pancreatic cancer research.
In 1996, Lei Zheng, a graduate of Peking Union Medical College, enrolled in the doctorate program at what was then known as the Cancer Therapy & Research Center in San Antonio.
Something odd turned up in one of Lawrence Phillips’s routine health screenings in 2008.
Elizabeth Comen originally set out to write a book about the wellness industry, but ended up writing a different book altogether.
Allison Dowling knew a career in medicine wasn’t for her. She’d seen firsthand the pain and stress experienced by patients who didn’t have the wherewithal to navigate systemic barriers in health care—problems that often fall outside the jurisdiction of the clinic.
In her final year as a medical student, Francisca Finkel chose an elective rotation that is offered by few med schools: Working with lawyers to resolve non-medical issues that harm patients with cancer.
