Gynecologic oncologists challenged to meet ‘cancer collision’ head on
By SHALMALI PAL |
March 23, 2009
Dr. Burke is the executive vice president and physician in-chief at Houston’s M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Roman is at the Los Angeles-based University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, where she is the chief of the division of gynecologic oncology and the program director of gynecologic oncology.
Leaders of the Society for Gynecologic Oncologists urge their colleagues to invest in personalized patient care, educate the next generation of physicians, and get involved in clinical research.
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