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Mashup Score: 0Hidden Risks - VICC Momentum - 1 year(s) ago
Damaris Olagundoye, MD, grew up knowing that her maternal grandmother was a breast cancer survivor. She would listen as her mother talked with cousins who had also been diagnosed with the disease, but her family didn’t learn until decades later that they carried a mutation in the BRCA2 gene. Her mother’s heritage was Afro Panamanian, …
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Mashup Score: 1VICC Momentum - - 2 year(s) ago
Friendly Face Charlotte Ladd is ‘once in a lifetime’ volunteer Read More Outreach Vanderbilt-Ingram Engages Far Beyond Clinic Walls to Listen and Meet Community Needs Read More Cracking the Colon Cancer Conundrum Researchers reflect on 20 years of…
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Mashup Score: 0Empathetic Mindset - VICC Momentum - 2 year(s) ago
When Ryan Merrell, MD, was in his third year of medical school at the University of Alabama, he hadn’t quite decided what specialty he would choose. Then life dealt a heavy blow, nudging him toward the field of neuro-oncology. His father, Jim, who had recently retired from Boeing in Huntsville, Alabama, was diagnosed with glioblastoma …
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Mashup Score: 1Barrier Breaker - VICC Momentum - 3 year(s) ago
Karen Winkfield was a senior in high school, skipping class and hanging out in the cafeteria, when she felt a tap on her shoulder. Mrs. Miller, a mild-mannered woman with dark curly hair who taught English, wanted to know why her star student had suddenly become a slacker. Winkfield confided that her parents would not …
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Mashup Score: 1From Research to Remedy - VICC Momentum - 4 year(s) ago
Ishmeal Boles was so sick with cancer he was out of his mind. His lung cancer, which had gone undiagnosed, had spread to his liver, spine and brain when he was transferred from a community hospital to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “For three weeks, he didn’t know he was in this world; he didn’t know …
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Hidden Risks - VICC Momentum https://t.co/eWg13lo11H Great article on such an important topic! @Sonyareid07 @VUMCepi