2013年1月出版
Dr. Margaret Tempero is director of the UCSF胰腺中心 and leader of the Pancreas Cancer Program at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. She has dedicated her career to serving as a champion for patients with 胰腺癌.
十大赌博平台排行榜问&A:玛格丽特·泰佩罗
你为什么选择UCSF?
I wanted to be in a world-class medical center with a culture of innovation, 科学发现, collaboration and outstanding clinical care.
UCSF has a tremendous sense of interdisciplinary collaboration. That's where you bring everybody's talents together to focus on a problem. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult problems we face in modern medicine, so I can't think of a better place to understand this disease. And if we can understand it, we can beat it.
What gives UCSF that culture of innovation?
The scientists here aren't afraid of taking risks. That gives a very different flavor to their work. 他们会尝试新事物, they will think out of the box, they won't back off from a difficult problem. In fact, sometimes the harder it is, the more they want to come to the table to try to unravel it.
How did you decide to focus on 胰腺癌 in your career?
Pancreatic cancer is the most lethal of all malignancies. It was recently classified as the most difficult of all the recalcitrant [difficult to treat] cancers that we deal with today.
When I first got into academic medicine, I looked for an area to focus on. I appreciated that patients with 胰腺癌 didn't have any real champions at that time, and thought that I could be that champion, I could pull a team together that could be champions for these patients. I've dedicated my life to patients with 胰腺癌.
What do you tell patients when they hear scary statistics and ask about their odds?
Odds deal with groups of people. I emphasize the individual nature of their problem, and how our treatment can make a difference in prolonging their lives and improving their chances for a long-term cure.
I tell them that individuals can beat this, and we treat our patients as individuals.
Beating 胰腺癌 with UCSF
How can we beat 胰腺癌 for good?
I think if we can pull everybody's strengths together from many different fields, and really understand the biology of the disease, we 可以结束它.
是什么激励着你?
The scientific strength of my colleagues is always teaching me something, helping me to be better. It inspires me to come up with new paradigms that I can take back and challenge them with, so it's sort of a 圆形的东西.
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How is UCSF unique for patients?
UCSF is really patient-centered. Often we hear that patients are a little afraid when they're referred here. 这是一个大机构. 但 everyone says that once they're here, it's like they've come home. 他们 appreciate the kind and compassionate care they get from everyone, from the person in the front office, to the nurse, to the doctor, to the valet who's parking their car.
Are your patients part of their care team?
The more patients understand the disease, and the principles of managing it, the more they can be partners in our progress. 所以我们真的 do look for the patient to be part of the team.
Do they also help you in your research?
We want to learn from everything we can, so every patient we see becomes part of our research program. It could be a simple matter of donating some extra piece of biopsy tissue or a blood sample, or actually participating in a clinical trial where we're trying out a new 药物. 他们 all teach us something, and we hope that they benefit in some way by their participation.
