Thoracic Oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer center at @CooperHealthNJ, Author of #HemeOncBuddy app, happy husband and dad 🤗
May 12 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
Lets bring #MedTwitter back!
Introducing #HemeOncHeroes ➡️ a series about the pioneers, rebels, and visionaries who changed hematology and oncology forever!
Lets dive in 👇 #HemeOncHeroes series. Story #1
In 1994, his own institutions fired him in a single week.
He was 76 years old.
The University of Pittsburgh fired him. The NCI fired him.
He had spent forty years proving that almost every breast cancer surgery for a century had been pointless.
He was right.
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His name was Bernard Fisher.
He was born in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh in 1918. His father Reuben sold apples. Bernard would live within blocks of the house he grew up in for the rest of his life.
