LISA KACHNIC, chair of the Department of Radiation Ocology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was elected president of the American Board of Radiology, succeeding Milton Guiberteau. Kachnic heads the Radiation Oncology service at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center with a personal research focus on optimizing sphincter-preserving chemoradiation therapy for locally advanced anal cancer. In a national trial...
“Backwater to Blockbuster,” the first de novo book published by the Cancer History Project, traces the evolution of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to its current status of a powerhouse of research in pediatric cancer.
