#18 Azra Raza on the Unique Challenges in Treating Blood Cancers, Becoming Her Late Husband’s Oncologist, and the Need for a More Humane, Patient-Centered Approach 

Azra Raza, MD, is a world‑leading cancer physician‑scientist and the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, where she directs the Myelodysplastic Syndrome Center. For more than four decades, she has been at the forefront of research into blood cancers, with a particular focus on detecting cancer at its very earliest stages. She is also the author of the acclaimed book The First Cell, which challenges how we think about cancer research, treatment, and prevention. Dr. Raza is widely respected not only for her scientific contributions, but for her powerful advocacy for a more humane, patient‑centered approach to cancer. 

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