BreakthroughsSpring2018

Ten years, twelve years, even more than two decades. That is how long some of DCI’s patients with prostate and other urologic cancers are liv­ing past their diagnoses.

Dan George, MD, remem­bers one of the first times he helped someone live longer. He was treating a patient with metastatic kidney can­cer.

Brant Inman, MD, MS, is skilled at the major sur­geries that no one wants to be unlucky enough to have. He'd prefer to put himself out of business.

Despite living with stage 4 kidney cancer, Marisha Hargrove of Henderson, North Carolina, still sings in her church choir and takes care of her two children.

Five years after surgery to treat prostate cancer, Steele Dewey of Charlotte, North Carolina was told that the cancer had spread. He chose Dan George, MD, at Duke.

It’s something that has happened to all of us; you arrive on time for your 10:30 a.m. doctor’s appointment and wait an hour, only to have the doctor spend 15 minutes with you.

Cardiologist Chiara Melloni became interested in the emerging field of cardio-oncology after her father developed heart problems while being treated for lung cancer.

Motivated by her late husband's cancer journey, Fumiko Chino, MD, a resident in radiation oncology, studies the high cost of cancer care.

In January, DCI joined a select group of medical centers authorized to offer CAR T-cell therapy for patients with with certain types of relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.