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Toni Choueiri: MUST READ piece by Siddhartha Mukherjee on the causes of cancer
Dec 31, 2023, 17:01

Toni Choueiri: MUST READ piece by Siddhartha Mukherjee on the causes of cancer

Toni Choueiri shared on X/Twitter:

“MUST READ piece The New Yorker by Siddhartha Mukherjee on the causes of cancer, role of carcinogens, inflammation, with Charles Swanton, +team, Balmain, and more.

‘Swanton’s team had wrestled the mystery down using epidemiology, toxicology, immunology, and human genetics, and then pulled them together into a causal, biologically plausible mechanism for carcinogenesis.’ ”

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Source: Toni Choueiri/X

Toni K. Choueiri is the Director of the Lank Center for Genitourinary (GU) Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), co-leader of the Kidney Cancer Program at Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, and the Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg Chair and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the Medical Director of International Strategic Initiatives at Dana-Farber and past President of the Medical Staff at DFCI (2016-2018).

He received the George Canellos Award for Excellence in Clinical Investigation and Patient Care from DFCI in 2013, the Eugene Schonfeld Award from the Kidney Cancer Association (KCA) in 2016, and is a 2021 Giants of Cancer Care inductee. He serves on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Kidney Cancer Panel, KidneyCan Board, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) GU Steering Committee, and is past Chairman (2015-2018) of the Medical and Scientific Steering Committee of the KCA.

Dr. Choueiri is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI). In addition, he is an Aresty Scholar from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.