Cancer patients awaiting treatment in Uganda

Improving access to high-quality cancer care in Uganda

Professors of radiation oncology at Washington University in St. Louis are teaming up with the Uganda Cancer Institute and Makerere University School of Medicine in Africa to modernize radiation therapy for cancer patients. WashU’s collaboration with the Uganda Cancer Institute is supported by the McDonnell International Scholars Academy’s 2021 Global Incubator Seed Grant initiative. Makerere […]

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Developer of cancer goggles hopes to inspire children in the developing world

Samuel Achilefu, PhD, the Michel M. Ter-Pogossian Professor of Radiology, discussed his journey from childhood to the development of his cancer-seeing goggles, to what he hopes is yet to come.