New! Profiles in Endocrine-Related Cancer

Endocrine-Related Cancer 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. In particular, he describes the outcome of his research on hormone dependent human breast cancer as a combination of serendipity and perseverance. Yet, in hindsight, he reflects that perhaps the path he chose was unavoidable, given the state of science in the 1960s and the vast influences of people around him.

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, at the molecular genetic level, 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.