Dr. Mark Applebaum and Dr. Douglas Yee

A Struggle and an Honor

“Well child checks are more fun,” says Dr. Applebaum, a pediatric oncologist at University of Chicago Medicine. “We deal with life and death. It’s a struggle, but it’s an honor.”

John Paul Shen, MD

Of the approximately 78 organs in the human body, there are a handful that scientists have ultimately deemed unnecessary for survival. Of these, few are more problematic—or confounding—than the appendix.  

Dr. Eric Singhi and Dr. Don Dizon

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Yelena Janjigian, MD

Whenever someone walks onstage during the Plenary Session of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), they do so knowing that thousands of eyes and ears are finely tuned to every word they speak, every graphi