Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Sam Dick, 54, a television news anchor in Lexington, Ky., had just watched his father die from prostate cancer when he got the news last fall that he had the disease. He and his wife wanted a cure and decided that surgery was the best option. They learned from online research and conversations with physicians [...]

Kort Nygard, Ph.D., 69, a clinical psychologist, considers himself a “skilled practitioner in the art of denial.” He was happy to defer treatment when his first biopsy showed he had prostate cancer. On a second biopsy though, his cancer had spread. His physician, David Penson, M.D., said it was time to treat and laid out [...]

For more than 30 years, surgical nurse Carolyn Watts, M.S.N., R.N., has tended to patients’ wounds. But healing, she notes, is about more than just the physical wounds. As she often tells nursing students: “Look at the whole patient, and not just the hole in the patient.” This holistic approach is especially important in cancer [...]

Paul Wise, M.D., has been elected president of the Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Colorectal Cancer (CGA). He has held leadership roles on the council since 2008. Wise, assistant professor of Surgery in the Division of General Surgery, specializes in colon and rectal surgery with an interest in colorectal and gastrointestinal cancers. He [...]