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Summer 2024 Issue

Momentum: Moving toward a future without cancer.

  • Double Duty

    Robotic technology makes simultaneous surgeries better for patients


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    Double Duty

  • Force of Nature

    Patient establishes program to support female bladder cancer care


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    Force of Nature

  • Innovation Investment

    Ingram family legacy of giving continues


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    Innovation Investment

  • High Notes

    Music therapy uplifts patients


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    High Notes

Departments

Innovations

The Vanderbilt Transplant Center has performed its first lung transplant on a patient with lung cancer, and she is now cancer free. Carole Taylor, 48, of Nashville, Tennessee, said it all started with stiffness and soreness in her right shoulder. “It was growing increasingly stiff and got to where I couldn’t really move it,” she […]

My Story

“However small the chance might be of striking luck; the chance is there. The chance has to be there.”  – Roald Dahl, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” Stage 4 cancer monopolized three years of my life in my mid-20s. There is a platitude that likens the process of the diagnosis, treatment and survivorship of cancer […]

Multimedia Highlights

Also In This Issue

Director's Letter
A word from Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD

Q&A
Conversations with cancer experts

Journal Watch
Highlights of recent publications.