On baseball and breast cancer

Anees B Chagpar

doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2017.09.004

On baseball and breast cancer

Am J Surg. 2018 Mar;215(3):353-356. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2017.09.004. Epub 2017 Sep 20.

Author

Anees B Chagpar¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, United States. Electronic address: anees.chagpar@yale.edu.

PMID: 28958652
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2017.09.004

Abstract

Dedicated to the memory of Dr. William Hunter Harridge and Nonie Lowry, this manuscript discusses the ups and downs associated with novel therapies in breast cancer, and applies the lessons of persistence learned from baseball to our quest for more optimal treatments, particularly in triple negative breast cancer.

Publication types

Biography
Historical Article

MeSH terms

Baseball / history*
Breast Neoplasms / history*
Breast Neoplasms / therapy
Female
History, 20th Century
Humans
Surgical Oncology / history*
Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms / history
Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms / therapy
United States

Personal name as subject

William Hunter Harridge
Nonie Lowry