Women in Oncology

A study on highly cited women scientists who have succeeded by conventional measures of academic achievement suggests that reaching the top does not mean that barriers have disappeared. For years, CancerWorld has documented the barriers that hold women back in…

Prof. Martine Piccart grew up in a house where medicine was part of the air. Her father, a gynecologist, treated patients at home. “I admired him deeply,” she says. “He helped people. I saw that up close. It left a…