Doug Schwartzentruber
Surgical Oncologist, Goshen Center for Cancer Care
Doug Schwartzentruber is a surgical oncologist and medical director of the Goshen Center for Cancer Care in Indiana. His work pioneering cancer vaccines earned him a spot on the Time 100 in 2010.
Schwartzentruber attended medical school and completed a general surgery residency at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis. He completed an Immunotherapy Fellowship in 1988 and a Surgical Oncology Fellowship in 1990 at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and he served as Senior Investigator in the Surgery Branch of The National Cancer Institute for 13 years.
Breakthroughs: Cancer, the third in a three-part Big Think series on the major diseases of our time.
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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, […]
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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?
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The Cancer Genome Atlas project, already several years underway, is transforming the way scientists think about and treat cancer.
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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.
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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.
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Doug Schwartzentruber: Why do virtually all men over the age of 90 develop some amount of prostate cancer whereas heart cancer is practically unheard of?
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