Just as the body consists of a
variety of cell types performing an array of functions,
the Division of Hematology/Oncology defies easy categorization.
Our 50 faculty members are, in varying proportions,
involved in research, training, and clinical practice.
We focus our energies on the diseases of the blood,
problems with the blood-forming organs, solid cell
tumors, and the health of the patient as a whole.
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Hematology
As
they plunge through the bloodstream, blood cells supply
most of the basic energy, nourishment, host defense,
and custodial services needed to sustain the life of
the organism. This surging, cell-filled liquid is a
metaphor for life itself -- James H. Jandl, Blood
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Oncology
For
several thousand years, cancer was visible only in its
outward manifestations. It was the invention of the
microscope that revealed the cancer cell itself. Complex
biotechnologies developed in the past two decades have
enabled scientists to pursue, at the molecular level,
knowledge of the mechanisms that trigger cancer's uncontrolled
and deadly cell growth -- National Cancer Institute
Our
Nation has made real and substantial progress against
cancer, particularly in recent years -- The President's
Cancer Panel
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