Gerald E. Hanks was a giant in the world of radiation oncology and oncology in general. It isn't often that we can say this and probably understate a person's significance and influence, but Jerry was one of those people. He died on Dec. 20, 2017, at the age of 83.
Jimmie C. Holland, internationally recognized as the founder of the field of psycho-oncology, died suddenly on Dec. 24, 2017, at the age of 89.
Donald S. Coffey, Ph.D., cancer warrior, humanist, mentor to hundreds of researchers and physicians, friend to countless people, was filled with a burning curiosity to understand the world and to know personally everyone he came in contact with.
Dr. Oliver "Ollie" Press, photographed on Jan. 19, 2017 at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington.Oliver “Ollie” Press, a blood cancer physician who made foundational contributions to the development of targeted cancer therapies, died Sept. 29 of complications from glioma. He was 65.
Source: University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center Angela Hartley Brodie, professor emeritus in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a scientist whose groundbreaking research is considered among the greatest advances in treating breast cancer, died of complications from Parkinson's disease at her home in Fulton, MD. She was 82.
H. Jean Khoury, an expert in hematologic malignancies at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, died May 22, after a year spent battling cancer. He was 50.
It's possible that there were pianos that Bob Comis didn't like.
Charles Aubrey “Mickey” LeMaistre, a former president of MD Anderson Cancer and a pioneer of cancer prevention, died Jan. 27. He was 92.
Dan Sargent, one of the world's foremost experts in oncology clinical trials, died unexpectedly on Sept. 22. Sargent died from an acute illness, Mayo officials said. He was 46.
Saul Sharkis, a scientist who studied the biology of blood stem cells and how they could be used to treat cancer through bone marrow transplantation, died Sept. 4. He was 72.
