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