Smart Choices
How to reduce cancer risk
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Winter 2015 Issue
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High Stakes
When a brain tumor threatened Andrew Leahey’s music, the Skull Base Center preserved his hearing—and his rock star hair
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Departments
A Closer Look
From a young age, Scott Sobecki had two loves: medicine and computers. His career path began with the former and gravitated to the latter. Vanderbilt brought them together in one job. Sobecki is the director of the Research Informatics Core at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, leading a 25-person team that develops software to aid researchers in […]
Spotlight On: Skull Base Tumors
Music has always filled Andrew Leahey’s mind and his heart. With a mom who taught music classes, Leahey spent his early years in Richmond, Virginia, plinking on the keys of the family piano, listening to melodies and singing along. “I thought it was just normal, that everybody walked around the house singing all the time. […]
Stories of Survival
In the summer of 2013, my 39-year-old husband, Todd Jackson, our 4-month-old daughter, Allie, and I were living the life we had dreamed of and worked hard to achieve, when our bliss was interrupted by Todd’s strange speech symptoms. Brain surgery and a diagnosis of glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer, followed over […]
Also In This Issue
Director's Letter
A word from the Director
Quick Takes
News from around the Cancer Center
Journal Watch
Highlights of recent publications.