Optimizing radiation therapies for breast cancer patients
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Clinical research trials on optimal radiation treatments for breast cancer often take years, and without any guarantee of meaningful outcomes. But Timothy Whelan perseveres, driven by a singular factor, and that is the patient. “All of my research derives from how we treat breast cancer patients, and what we could do better,” says Whelan, professor of oncology at McMaster University and radiation oncologist at the Juravinski Cancer Centre of Hamilton Health Sciences. “They are at the centre of everything I do.”
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