10 Interesting Fact About Famous oncologists

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• Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, a famous oncologist, also a famous book writer The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer who won the Pulitzer Prize award.
• Dr. Azra Raza, a famous oncologist, also a poet and writer and has published several poetry books.
• Dr. Harold Varmus, a famous oncologist, is the first person to identify genes, namely genes that cause the growth of cancer cells.
• Dr. Emil Frei III, a famous oncologist, is responsible for the development of a combination of chemotherapy which was first used to treat cancer.
• Dr. Vincent T. Devita Jr., a famous oncologist, is known as the father of modern chemotherapy because of his contribution in the development of modern chemotherapy.
• Dr. Nancy Davidson, a famous oncologist, is the President of the American Association for Cancer Research and has received various awards for his contribution in cancer research.
• Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee is also a biology professor at Columbia University and has given a Ted Talk lecture on cancer.
• Dr. Azra Raza became famous for opposing the use of chemotherapy in cancer patients who were old and sick.
• Dr. Emil Frei III also led the cancer treatment program at the National Cancer Institute for 15 years.
• Dr. Vincent T. Devita Jr. Also an oncology professor at the Yale School of Medicine and has published more than 400 scientific articles on cancer.