Well, I think the good news is that we have learned a whole lot. When I was in training, I saw a lot of women with breast tumors the size of golf balls. Today we don't see that. If a woman feels something the size of a pea, she dashes to see her doctor for a mammogram. The bad news is that we haven't put into practice what we have learned as well as we might have.
Lung cancer kills more women than breast cancer, but more young women are smoking than ever before.
So that's very disappointing to us. But that procedure is not covered by most insurance plans. You're a physician, researcher, teacher and an administrator. From the very beginning, I was always interested in the chemical processes that controlled human life. But during my career at the University of California and at Memorial Sloan Kettering, I assumed more and more administrative positions directing programs and departments.