The Neuroscience of Cancer
Of the many tumor slides William Hwang, MD ’15 PhD ’13, has seen, there’s one in particular that is seared into his memory. He encountered it as a medical student while on a rotation caring for an elderly patient with pancreatic cancer. “What struck me as the most horrible part of the experience for them was the pain,” he recalls. Hwang wanted to understand where that intractable pain was coming from. So, he asked Mari Mino-Kenudson, an HMS professor of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, to
