As a pediatrician, I’ve been at the bedside of countless families whose lives changed in a moment when they learned their child had cancer.
As a daughter and patient, myself, I’ve scrambled to learn as much as I could about new diagnoses, treatments, and testing for adult cancers, all while wondering if this was the moment my own life was going to drastically change.
For those of us in Tennessee, where we have the sixth-highest cancer death rate in the country, this is a particularly sobering reality. Our communities deserve better and only by coming together will we make a change for good.
Read more from Vice Chancellor for Research Jessica Snowden, MD, on the UT Health Science Center News website.