Meet Radiation Oncologist Nancy Lee | Memorial Sloan Kettering

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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center radiation oncologist Nancy Lee gives patients with head and neck cancer new hope using a technology called IMRT (intensity-modulated radiation therapy). Patient John McPeak and Dr. Lee describe how she used this targeted approach to completely eliminate a tumor at the base of his tongue, while also preserving both his speech and his quality of life.

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My name is Nancy Lee. I’m an associate attending at the department of radiation and oncology focusing on head and neck cancer. John is a patient of mine. He was diagnosed with cancer involving the base of the tongue.

When they found it, it had already metastasized over here. My cancer has four stages and I was in the fourth stage. So, that was rather exciting [laughs].

Patients, many times when they have cancer, they feel very nervous and they feel like they have a death sentence basically. When they come to see me, after explaining all the radiation, I give them hope because there is hope.

Her focus was so intense and so warm that you couldn’t walk away from it. I remember saying to her that I was worried about the quality of life afterwards, particularly the fact that since the cancer is centered here, and all of my business is done talking, you’ve got to save my voice. Don’t take away my voice and say ‘fine, you’re cured.’ She said, ‘you’re fine, I’m an artist.’

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