A cancer pioneer, Helene G. Brown had coined the name for her peculiar subspecialty: political oncology.
Oncology pioneer John W. Yarbro, MD, PhD, died April 13 in Miramar Beach, Florida. He was 88.
We moved to Houston together with Rosemary's daughters, Catharine and Claire, in August of 1983 when Irv accepted the position of head of the Division of Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Isaiah “Josh” Fidler, DVM, PhD, died on May 8, at his home in Houston following a long illness.
On rare occasion, an innovator makes such a profound impact on the world that people thereafter cannot imagine what life was like before that transformation. Paradoxically, for those not witness to such an achievement, this phenomenon may have, in terms of legacy, a blunting effect.
Bernard Fisher had been in many a fight. He was, after all, an iconoclastic surgeon who had famously infuriated his colleagues by demonstrating that heroic surgeries in breast cancer do more harm than good.
Bernard Fisher, a surgeon and clinical trialist who revolutionized the field of breast cancer research and all but eliminated reliance on disfiguring surgeries, died Oct. 16 at the age of 101.
Nearly half a century ago, Jerry Dock Boyd started covering the opening shots of the War on Cancer.
Henry T. Lynch, the father of hereditary cancer detection and prevention, died June 2. He was 91.
We have known a giant—physically, mentally, fraternally, socially, professionally, ethically, spiritually. Now he is gone, but will be long remembered and loved.
