Following Her Path, Oncologist Highlights Issue of Cancer in Native Americans
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Following her path, oncologist highlights issue of cancer in Native Americans.
W hen Judith Salmon Kaur , M.D., wants to get a little laugh from an audience of oncologists, she talks about her maiden Choctaw Cherokee surname. “I tell them it’s very appropriate to be a salmon and going into cancer re search and cancer prevention because you’re always swimming upstream.” But that’s not so true nowadays, given the recent recognition of Kaur’s research. After decades of study...
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عنوان ژورنال: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0027-8874,1460-2105
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djn052