Douglas Morgan, MD, MPH, started working in Honduras after college as a Peace Corps engineer. He returned — after training in public health and gastroenterology — as a physician. “The healthcare needs that I observed as a Peace Corps volunteer triggered my interest in a career in medicine,” says Morgan, associate professor of Medicine. When […]
The end of cancer treatment is reason to celebrate and a relief for patients and their families, but it can also be a time of new concerns. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center offers the REACH for Survivorship Program, a comprehensive clinic for survivors of all ages who have faced any type of cancer and who have received […]
Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men, with about one in nine being diagnosed during his lifetime. Available treatments are effective for many men, but scientists are just beginning to discover the best way to tailor care to the specific characteristics of each individual patient’s cancer. “We physicians […]
Fortitude is threaded through the stories in this Momentum. Fortitude is what gives people battling cancer the strength to scale their obstacles. It is what cancer survivors use to lift up new patients. And it is what our researchers grip as they pursue research projects that can span years. Thomas Brewer has fortitude. Having beat […]
