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New profiles in ESE journal - Endocrine-Related Cancer

16 Jan 2012


Endocrine-Related Cancer, an official ESE journal, has published the first in a new series of Profiles on key figures in endocrinology which are available free online.

In the first Profile 'Chaos theory and a career in medicine' Dr Marc Lippman gives a fascinating insight into his early life and career in cancer research. He describes his career as being the outcome of 'The Butterfly Effect', a culmination of small yet significant opportunities which steered him down the professional road he took.

You can read more about the career of this leading figure in Endocrine-Related Cancer free online.

Marc Lippman is currently Kathleen and Stanley Glaser Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami and continues his work to understand how oestrogen stimulates breast cancer proliferation and to translate this knowledge into the clinic in order to identify patients who will benefit from hormone therapy.