Paths to oncology. The leaders are watching

“Drogi do onkologii. Liderzy patrzą” (“Paths to oncology. The leaders are watching”), a book published by the medical publisher PZWL in September/October 2017, is comprised of individual stories of contemporary Polish oncologists, told by the doctors themselves. They describe the paths they took to oncology, which was and remains a domain of medical innovation and humanity’s fascinating struggle to overcome diseases, cancer being the most complicated disorder with which these heroes of the medical profession wage war.
The list of names included in the book is not, of course, a full index of the outstanding figures in Polish oncology. I hope that in the next publication I will be able to introduce readers to still more names.
The following people are the first I was able to talk with, and I invite the reader to learn about them here:
• Professor Jacek Jassem, head of the Oncology and Radiotherapy Ward and Clinic at the Medical University of Gdańsk, board member of the Polish and European oncology societies;
• Professor Wiesław Jędrzejczak, head of the Haematology, Oncology and Internal Diseases Ward and Clinic at the Medical University of Warsaw, the surgeon to perform the first allogeneic bone marrow transplant in Poland in 1984;
• Professor Maciej Krzakowski, head of the Lung and Chest Cancer Clinic at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, for many years national consultant in the field of clinical oncology;
• Professor Andrzej Kułakowski, Professor Tadeusz Koszarowski’s successor in the Surgical Clinic at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, a pioneer in the field of oncological and reconstructive surgery techniques;
• Dr. Janusz Meder, head of the Lymphatic Cancer Clinic’s Medical Treatment Ward at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, expert in the field of radiotherapy, president of the Polish Union of Oncologists;
• Professor Marek Nowacki, surgeon oncologist, for many years director of the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology in Warsaw;
• Professor Tadeusz Pieńkowski, president of the Polish Breast Cancer Research Society, a board member of the International Senological Society;
• Professor Edward Towpik, creator of the pioneer Reconstructive Surgery Ward in the Head and Neck Cancer Clinic at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology in Warsaw;
• Professor Witold Zatoński, full professor of medicine, Doctor...


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