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Summer 2017 Issue
Departments
Day in Life
Social worker Cindy Tinker Hancock, LMSW, imagines the internal monologues that pass through the minds of people she encounters at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC). “Wait a minute—how did this happen?” she wonders aloud, slipping into a patient’s shoes, “I have a stage IV diagnosis and I can’t work. “I need to apply for disability or […]
Spotlight: Cholangiocarcinoma
C-H-O-L-A-N-G-I-O-C-A-R-C-I-N-O-M-A. Anne Wolfe asked the doctor to spell it out. She had come to see Kamran Idrees, M.D., a surgical oncologist at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) knowing that she had a malignancy in her liver, but she didn’t know the type of cancer that had secretly invaded the organ. “He looked at me and said […]
My Story
I was being nothing but vain and having a small mole removed from my face. Since the removal was for cosmetic reasons, my dermatologist didn’t measure the size or take pictures, but she did order a biopsy. Within three days I received the call that no one ever wants to get. The mole on my […]
Also In This Issue
Director's Letter
A word from the Director
Quick Takes
News from around the Cancer Center
Journal Watch
Highlights of recent publications.