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2 Discovering the Treatments of Tomorrow above left Dr. Maoquan Zhou, a postdoctoral fellow in professor Jon Thorson’s lab at the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy, is examining a vial with the anticancer drug mitoxantrone. He is developing novel chemistries to direct known anticancer drugs (such as mitoxantrone) to specific tumors via attaching sugars. UWCCC Annual Report 2008: moments in time Strength of Spirit above right Elizabeth Stower, 22 from Amery, Wisconsin receives radiation therapy for breast cancer. Elizabeth, a UW- Madison college senior majoring in political science and international studies, admits 2008 was a tough year. Her mother died of ovarian cancer, and in March, Elizabeth discovered a lump in her own breast. Laughter is the Best Medicine bottom right Carolyn Foster laughs at a joke while being treated with chemotherapy. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996, Carolyn’s cancer recurred in 2003. At the time, her life expectancy was only four years. More than five years later, Carolyn acknowledges “ownership of her treatment” and says she enjoys everyone at the UW because they “all take a personal interest in me.” She is already making camping plans for this summer.
4 UWCCC Annual Report 2008: moments in time Bench to Bedside above left Dr. Shanteri Singh, senior research scientist in the Thorson lab at the UW School of Pharmacy, studies the three dimensional structures of enzymes involved in making natural-product anticancer drugs and antibiotics. Teamwork bottom left The American Family Children’s Hospital hematology/ oncolgy staff performs family-centered rounds. Parents are invited to join the medical team to discuss their child’s case daily. The team includes a pediatric oncolgist, nurse practitioner, social worker, pediatric house staff (residents), pharmacist, case manager, nutritionist and a bedside nurse. Translating Discoveries Into Treatments bottom right Christopher Oberley, a cancer biology graduate student in the lab of Dr. Norman Drinkwater, seeks to understand why men are at greater risk for liver cancer than women. Their work is focused on the potential contribution of sex hormones to liver cancer development in mice.
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