The Neuroscience of Cancer

Scientists are making surprising discoveries about the connections between cancer and the nervous system.

Of the many tumor slides William Hwang, MD ’15 PhD ’13, has seen, there’s one in particular that is seared into his memory. He encountered it as a medical student while on a rotation caring for an elderly patient with pancreatic cancer. “What struck me as the most horrible part of the experience for them was the pain,” he recalls.

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