Perhaps sometimes I dwell too much on what I have lost because of cancer, more specifically because of the chemotherapy and radiation given to me to treat it. The reality is, I owe an awful lot to the chemo and radiation I often curse.
And I owe an awful lot to Dr. M. Lois Murphy,
a pediatric oncologist whose leadership advanced early work on chemotherapy, especially for childhood cancer, and led to markedly higher survival rates.