Promise & Progress | Cancer Matters

A Look Inside the Kimmel Cancer Center’s Cancer Medicine Cabinet

May 8, 2018

Read the latest issue of Promise & Progress featuring research advances in cancer drug discovery and development, promising new cancer drugs, patient stories and more. From scientific meetings to our own dinner tables, conversations about better treatments for cancer are among the most frequently discussed health care topics. Everyone wants them—the doctors and scientists who […]

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Getting Personal About Personalized Cancer Medicine

December 17, 2010

I got into this business 25 years ago, when my husband was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. I was a newlywed, and at 22-years-old, I faced the prospect of being a widow. The evening we learned the shocking news, I remember leaving the hospital to return home. I was numb with fear. I went into our […]