Fighting cancer in the lab and at the bedside

15.01.2012                      20.Tewet. 5772

Medizin:

Fighting cancer in the lab and at the bedside

Leading Canadian cancer researcher Prof. Karen Gelmon collaborates with Israelis to fight the comlpex disease.

Physicians who not only treat patients but also conduct medical research (and usually also teach in medical schools) are too rare a breed today – in Israel and in North America as well. But there still are some of these busy, energetic and dedicated people, such as Prof. Karen Gelmon, a senior medical oncologist at the department of medicine at Vancouver’s University of British Columbia and clinical head of the investigational drug unit in her field at the British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA).
Amazingly, she has also published over 400 medical journal articles and writes articles in the quarterly Canadian magazine Abreast in the West for the layman/woman and anxious cancer patients on treatments, diet and other updated information. Gelmon is married to a writer and is the mother of two daughters aged 24, neither of then involved in medicine….