Year: 2020
Type: editorial
Abstract: This is a guest editorial byWenshe Ray Liu, a chemistry professor at Texas A&M University. It was midnight on Oct. 29, 2014. After submitting a National Science Foundation proposal, I took a shower to soothe my exhaustion. While rubbing the left side of my neck, I felt an eerily large lump. I visited my family doctor, who carefully examined the lump and determined that it could be one of two things, a lymph node that had swollen from infection—or a tumor. He put me on amoxicillin for a month. The lump grew. A biopsy confirmed my worst fears: I had aggressive tumorigenesis. After a transfer to the MD Anderson Cancer Center, I was diagnosed with stage IVB nasopharyngeal cancer. The tumor had pressed up onto the left trigeminal nerve, which explained the bothersome uncontrollable saliva secretion that had been plaguing me. The cancer had locally metastasized to both sides of
Source: C&EN Global Enterprise
Author: Wenshe Ray Liu
Language: English
Topic: Head and Neck Cancer Studies
Subfield: Otorhinolaryngology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3046066890