Cancer

Brian Nguyen

Notes of Resilience: A Medical Student’s Insight on Music, Cancer, and Meaning

Brian Nguyen is a second-year medical student at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine.

In the following blog post, he reflects on his personal and professional path from childhood to medical school, centered around the enduring influence of his aunt and a deepening understanding of cancer.

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What We Know About Breast Cancer Today (that We Didn’t Know Ten Years Ago)

We sat down with Randy Holcombe, M.D., the new director of the University of Vermont Cancer Center and Marie Wood, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Familial Cancer Program at the University of Vermont Medical Center, to learn about the impact science has had on the screening, risk, prevention and treatment of breast cancer. 

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