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Millions of people come down with cancer each year, inspiring scientists to try to figure out how to prevent, diagnose, treat, and cure the different forms of this disease. Biostatistician Andrew Vickers helps doctors improve the ways they identify and treat prostate cancer. Bioengineer and Interventional Radiologist Derek West uses nanotechnology to kill cancer cells. Biochemist Eugene DeSombre, whose PhD is in chemistry, discovered how different breast cancers react to estrogen and developed a test for that, helping doctors figure out how to treat different cancer patients.
Biostatistician Andrew Vickers, a cancer researcher, uses math and the latest research to help the doctors at the hospital where he works do their best for their patients. When has a doctor helped …
Retired Biochemist Eugene DeSombre studied how different kinds of breast cancer responded to estrogen so that doctors would know how their patients would respond to different medicine or …
