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Dr. Jane Cooke Wright

Became the First Female President of the New York Cancer Society

Accomplishments In History

  • From 1973 to 1984 she served as vice president of the African Research and Medical Foundation
  • Dr. Jane Cooke Wright became professor of surgery
  • She was successful in identifying treatments for both breast and skin cancer
  • She was the highest ranked African American at a nationally recognized medical institution

Bibliography

http://www.aacr.org/Research/Awards/Pages/jane-cooke-wright.aspx#.VyQQKi4rJdg

Why Jane Wright Special To Me

http://www.aacr.org/Research/Awards/Pages/jane-cooke-wright.aspx#.VyQQKi4rJdg

Overcoming Obstacles In Her

Career

  • She wanted to help people that had cancer
  • Developing a chemotherapy protocol that increased skin cancer patient lifespans up to ten years
  • She wanted people to live forever so that they can have memory`s of their family and friends and funniest moments for many year

Jane C. Wright, “Cancer Chemotherapy: Past, Present, and Future — Part I.”, Journal of the National Medical Association,

  • Jane Wright experimented with injecting drugs directly into the blood vessels connected to a tumor for a more targeted treatment

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  • The most important thing Jane did was that she tried to find a cure for cancer
  • She also a wonderful person just like her dad Dr .Louis Wright that inspired her to be a oncologist

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Effect She Had On The World

  • She build a new comprehensive program to study stroke, heat disease, and cancer
  • She also created another program to help doctors in chemotherapy
  • She led delegations of cancer researchers to Africa ,China, Eastern Europe , and the Soviet Union
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