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Welcome to the Team

Recent recruits to the UF Shands Cancer Center include:

Robert Carroll, clinical assistant professor of medicine, hematology/oncology

Robert Hromas, chair of the department of medicine

Steven Hughes, associate professor of surgery and chief of general surgery

Bruce Mast, clinical associate professor of surgery and chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery

Maxim Norkin, assistant professor of medicine, hematology and oncology

Christiana Shaw, clinical assistant professor of surgery

Scott Tibbetts, associate professor of molecular genetics and microbiology

Spring 2011

From the Director’s Desk

The UF Shands Cancer Center is one of fewer than 20 centers across the country and the first in Florida to debut Intrabeam, a promising type of radiation that could transform the way breast cancer is treated.

Breast cancer patient Janice Northrup (pictured with her husband, Shaun) was one of the first patients at UF to undergo the Intrabeam procedure.)

Just What the Patient Ordered

Her husband placed the newspaper by her chair, carefully positioned so the article would be the first thing she saw. When Janice Northrup glanced at it, she discovered the answer she’d been praying to find.

From left: Steven Hochwald, Stephen Grobmyer and Luke Gutwein

Too Many Surgical Breast Biopsies?

Thousands of women receive unnecessary surgical breast biopsies in Florida each year, University of Florida researchers state in an article recently published online by the American Journal of Surgery.

A Place for Patients

Yoga classes at the Criser Cancer Resource Center are one of many ways the center helps patients and their families deal with the challenges presented by a cancer diagnosis or long hospital stay.