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The Cancer Stories You Never Hear
Girl suffering from leukemia in her room at a hospital. (Antoine Gyori/Sygma via Getty Images)
I’m often asked why I would spend my career focused on the unpredictable, unrelenting misery of cancer. Here’s why.
By Vinay Prasad, MD MPH
11.23.22 — Culture and Ideas
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Recently, some residents asked me why I had chosen my medical specialty.

“Why oncology?”

Why indeed…

The truth about life is that so often it is a chance encounter, an uncertain leap that takes us into the careers we “choose.” My own story of how I came to become a hematologist-oncologist is full of the randomness of my own life.

That’s not what they were a…

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Vinay Prasad, MD MPH
Vinay Prasad is a hematologist-oncologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco. He previously served as director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration.
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