Cancer: An Integrative Approach

Doru Paul M.D., PhDAssociate Professor of Clinical MedicineWeill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York-Presbyterian HospitalDepartment of MedicineDivision of Hematology/OncologyNew York, NY  Dr. Paul received his MD from the Carol Davila Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest, Romania and his PhD from the Faculty of Medicine in Craiova, Romania. He also got diplomas in Clinical Oncology, Chronobiology and Biology of Aging from Paris, France and he completed his training in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology in New York. Dr. Paul is an experienced clinician with more than ten thousand cancer patients treated until now and with a strong background in basic and translational research. He has designed and conducted several investigator initiated studies and initiated three FDA approved investigational new drug studies including the first in-man pilot study that uses [18F] Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) for the targeted treatment of cancer. Since 2015, he has been working on a novel cancer model [see, for example “The systemic hallmarks of cancer” (2020) and “Cancer as a form of life: Musings of the cancer and evolution symposium” (2021). He is also the senior oncology editor of the verywellhealth.com website and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical and Radiation Oncology.