Abraham Chachoua, MD
Photo: Juliana Thomas
In a conversation with The Research Evangelist podcast, Abraham Chachoua, MD, the Jay and Isabel Fine Professor of Oncology in the and associate director of cancer services at NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter 鶹Ƶapp Center, reflects on his career, from his clinical experience treating Kaposi sarcoma in people with AIDS in the early 1980s to discovering his passion for treating people with lung cancer.
Dr. Chachoua, who is also a professor in the and director of Perlmutter 鶹Ƶapp Center’s Lung 鶹Ƶapp Center, recalls being steered toward specializing in lung cancer by a mentor because of the dearth of research and treatments.
“In 1985, nothing was happening in lung cancer, and there was really only one type of chemotherapy that people got,” Dr. Chachoua says. “Today, lung cancer no longer is an area that nobody wants to work in. There’s been an explosion of new and effective treatments.”
Listen to Dr. Chachoua’s entire interview on .
