September - October 2022

Imagine a time when 95 percent of all cancers are curable and people with incurable cancers have access to treatments that allow them to live longer with a good quality of life. Sound far-fetched? Not to Eric Winer, MD, the new director of Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of Smilow Cancer Network, who expects the nation will reach this milestone in a decade.

These days, we often read about major research breakthroughs that promise to dramatically shift the paradigm of cancer care, from targeted radiation treatments to minimally invasive surgery to personalized immunotherapy that hunts down and kills cancer cells.