Miguel Bronchud, Co-Founder at Regenerative Medicine Solutions, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“ASCO joins the oncology community in mourning the loss of Maura L. Gillison.
She studied zoology at Duke University before earning her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and later her doctoral degree in clinical investigation at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a dual mastery that would prove uniquely well-suited to the question that would consume her career.
The answer, as she demonstrated in a landmark paper that she published with colleagues in 2000 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, was HPV.
‘Evidence for a Causal Association Between Human Papillomavirus and a Subset of Head and Neck Cancers’
Specifically, HPV-16, a sexually transmitted virus, is a direct causal agent in a distinct and biologically different subset of head and neck cancers.
This finding overturned nearly a century of conventional wisdom attributing all head and neck cancers to tobacco and alcohol.”
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