Chapter 06: Encountering a New View of Radiation and the Decision to Shift to Radiation Oncology
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Dr. Komaki begins this chapter by summarizing Japanese attitudes about radiation and the lack of interest in Japan in researching the therapeutic potential of targeted radiation. She explains that she began to question this perspective when she encountered entirely different views during her internship and residency in the United States.
Dr. Komaki then talks about key events during her fellowship in hematology at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Milwaukee that motivated her to shift to radiation oncology. She also talks about work with patients and also the impact of seeing Anthony Guaninger, MD on rounds and hearing him speak about cancer. She talks about meeting Dr. James Cox [oral history interview], who came to Milwaukee as Chief of Radiation Oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin (and who would become her second husband). She became the first resident in Radiation Oncology in the department he was building.
Dr. Komaki then talks about making the intellectual shift from hematology to radiation oncology and the types of questions she was interested in exploring.
Identifier
KomakiR_02_20181128_C06
Publication Date
11-28-2018
Publisher
The Making Cancer History® Voices Oral History Collection, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
City
Houston, Texas
Interview Session
Topics Covered
The Interview Subject's Story - Professional Path; The Researcher
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Transcript
T.A. Rosolowski, PhD:
Okay, we’re recording. I’ll say for the record, I’m Tacey Ann Rosolowski, and the time is about seventeen minutes after ten.
R. Komaki, MD:
Ten.
T.A. Rosolowski, PhD:
Yes. It says eleven but it’s not eleven.
R. Komaki, MD:
No. You are Eastern Time.
T.A. Rosolowski, PhD:
Right I am, yeah, something is happening with Eastern Time. I am at the home of Ritsuko Komaki, for our second interview session together, so I wanted to thank you for making the time.
Recommended Citation
Komaki, Ritsuko MD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Chapter 06: Encountering a New View of Radiation and the Decision to Shift to Radiation Oncology" (2018). Interview Chapters. 1287.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/1287
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Open
