with Larry Norton, Fran Visco, Lois Kasper and more on Sep 28, 1998
with Lynn Schuchter, Dennis Slamon, Carol Hochberg and more on May 20, 1998
Larry Norton is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He has broad interests in cancer, although he mostly treats patients with breast cancer. His research concerns the basic biology of cancer, the mathematics of tumor causation and growth, and the development of approaches to better diagnosis, prevention, and drug treatment of the disease. Norton is most specifically identified with the development of an approach to therapy called “dose density”, or “sequential dose density”, a new and more effective way of using anticancer drugs, based on a mathematical model he developed with his colleagues, which maximizes the killing of cancer cells while minimizing toxicity.
On a national level, Norton is the President of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO and was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the National Cancer Advisory Board (the board of directors of the National Cancer Institute).
Source: MSKCC http://www.mskcc.org/prg/prg/bios/70.cfm
