{"id":919565,"date":"2026-10-07T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/919565\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:56:08","slug":"after-years-with-a-tumor-shes-ready-to-transform-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/919565\/","title":{"rendered":"After Years With A Tumor, She&#8217;s Ready To Transform Cancer Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outside the lab, she shadowed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christushealth.org\/find-a-doctor\/sunil-patel-15916\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.christushealth.org\/find-a-doctor\/sunil-patel-15916\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sunil Patel, M.D., <\/a>a family friend and oncologist practicing in Texarkana, during school breaks, watching his patients go through chemotherapy. As she moved between the chemistry lab and the oncology clinic, then learned she had a tumor herself, she felt pulled toward long-term work in cancer care. &#8220;It was really when I bridged that gap that I realized that this might be something that I want to do long term,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outside the lab, she shadowed Sunil Patel, M.D., a family friend and oncologist practicing in Texarkana, during school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,1617,137,500,487663,44,61963,108545],"class_list":["post-919565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cancer","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-invisible-illness","tag-news","tag-purpose","tag-success-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}