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Deborah Schrag
Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Deborah Schrag is a medical oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where she specializes in gastrointestinal cancer. Previously she was an associate attending physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, which she joined in February 1999.
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Deborah Schrag: A panel discussion highlighting cutting-edge cancer research.
5 min
The previous director of the National Cancer Institute wanted to banish suffering and death from cancer by 2015. Current director Harold Varmus says this claim was not based on reality, […]
4 min
Seemingly every year there are new reports that something we consume or use on a daily basis is carcinogenic. But what exactly does that mean on a biological level?
8 min
The Cancer Genome Atlas project, already several years underway, is transforming the way scientists think about and treat cancer.
8 min
There are some dramatic cases in which cancers have regressed or gone away on their own, which raises the bigger question of why some early cancers progress and others don’t.
6 min
One in three Americans are diagnosed in their lifetime with cancer, a derangement of normal cell growth in which cells grow in antisocial ways, crossing natural tissue boundaries.
4 min
Deborah Schrag: Why do virtually all men over the age of 90 develop some amount of prostate cancer whereas heart cancer is practically unheard of?