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Promising lab research is too slow to be converted into clinical innovation for patients with cancer. Yale Cancer Center Director Thomas Lynch talks about his plans to dramatically expand clinical research in cancer and the special emphasis that Yale is putting on tailoring treatments to individual patients. The Cancer Center will draw on the resources of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation to speed discoveries from Yale's vast basic science facilities to the new Smilow Cancer Hospital.

With the opening of the Smilow Cancer Hospital and extensive new research facilities, Yale is poised to make major strides in cancer treatment. Dr. Thomas Lynch, who heads Smilow and the Yale Cancer Center, discusses how research and patient care each play a role in developing new treatments that will address the most deadly forms of cancer.

Yale Dermatology Faculty members discuss sun safety and their participation in skin cancer safety day at the Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament.

Dr. Francine Foss, director of the Lymphoma, Leukemia and Myeloma Program at Yale, and Yale Cancer Center member, discusses advances in treatment that are increasing cancer cure rates while causing fewer distressing symptoms than traditional chemotherapy.

Dr. Kenneth D. Miller, Director of Survivorship Program, interviews Dr. Pasquale Patrizio about fertility after cancer treatment.

Dr. Yu speaks (in Mandarin) about his research on the epidemiological factors that lead to the development of pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancers in the United States, and endometrial cancer. He is working with international collaborators, including colleagues at Shanghai University.