Shushan Hovsepyan, Editor-in-Chief of OncoDaily Medical Journal and Co-Chair of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology Global Health Network Research and Innovation Working Group, shared a post on LinkedIn:
‘Sarcoma was once called the backwater of cancer research.’
When Prof. George Demetri said this during our conversation, it stopped me in my tracks. Imagine dedicating your life to a field that most people thought was a dead end – and then proving them wrong.
We talked about the early days when rare cancers were dismissed as ‘too rare‘ to matter, the ‘street fights‘ he had to bring targeted therapies to GIST patients, and why you can’t fall in love with your own hype.
The most powerful takeaway?
His reminder that there’s still so much left to discover – nothing could be further from the truth than thinking the work is done.
What battles are you personally fighting every day to make oncology better?”
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