About the Speaker
Eileen White, PhD
Deputy Director, Chief Scientific Officer
Rutgers Cancer Institute
Title: Cancer as a Systemic Disease
Description: Cancer alters function of tissues throughout the body. Understanding how tumors modify organ function can lead to insights in disease progression and novel treatment approaches including the devastating and lethal wasting syndrome of cachexia.
The audience for this seminar series includes Stanford University and Stanford Medicine faculty, trainees, and staff interested in basic, translational, clinical, and population-based cancer research.