肿瘤学的开拓者:
了解乳腺癌的历史

悲伤是药物发现过程中不可否认的一部分

这是我在整个职业生涯中不断吸取的教训. There are few industries where you can pour your heart and soul into your work and collaborate with some of the smartest people in the field, 而且还, sometimes at the end of the process feel like there is nothing to show for it. 令人心碎的失败发生在药物发现过程中. The thing you thought would make a difference for patients actually hasn't and you can feel like you are letting patients down – until you realise that failure can be a springboard for the most promising breakthroughs.

在失败中寻找希望

我生长在一个医生和科学家的家庭, so my view on scientific study from a young age was that of conceptual fascination. As I considered my career path in secondary school and university, this point of view was solidified thanks to captivating teachers and lecturers that dug into big, 在实验室里用热情和好奇挑战问题. With that science-based foundation and a desire to find the opportunity for my contributions to have the biggest impact, I made the decision to embark on a career in the pharmaceutical industry.

在澳门葡京网赌游戏的22年里, I’ve seen a number of discoveries that helped change outcomes for patients, 克服耐药性, 降低毒性，提高生活质量, 提高总体存活率. But I’ve also seen some great ideas fail - and it’s from these failures that we learn the most.

我的导师告诉我，优秀的科学家保持敏捷. That can be hard to remember when you work on a compound for years, 对它的潜力感觉很好, and clinical trial results don’t show improvements in patients as you expected. You don’t forget that disappointment – you never want to experience it again, 但这只是过程的一部分，你可以从中学习. 作为全球产品领导者, 我提醒我的团队，澳门葡京赌博游戏可以沉湎于悲伤之中, 或者澳门葡京赌博游戏可以问:什么起作用了? 澳门葡京赌博游戏学到了什么?? 下次澳门葡京赌博游戏能做得更好吗?

I’ve seen a handful of therapeutic targets that puzzled scientists for years until we designed and discovered the right drug to unlock the potential. When you’re lucky enough to experience that magic – when hard work, persistence and extraordinary science translate into great data for patients – 那是最好的感觉. That’s when we can change what it means to be diagnosed with cancer.

人性化激发灵感

This is especially true when it comes to progress in breast cancer research. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, and even more people are touched through their own loved ones’ diagnoses.¹ 宣传和提高认识工作, as well as research and drug development in this area have drastically transformed what a breast cancer diagnosis means. 我就是这些倡导者之一, 作为我的母亲, 祖母, sister-in-law and stepmother-in-law have been diagnosed with breast cancer and undergone treatment. I have a slide with their photos that I share whenever we talk about our goals and priorities because they are never far from my mind. I project it for my teams because these people – our family members, 朋友, 所爱的人——是澳门葡京赌博游戏工作的全部内容. 他们是澳门葡京赌博游戏目标背后的面孔, 他们需要澳门葡京赌博游戏迅速实现这一目标, 时间总是最重要的.

澳门葡京赌博游戏工作背后的动力超越了澳门葡京赌博游戏生活中的人. 在过去的项目中, my teams have kept track of each patient impacted by our clinical trials using a whiteboard to tally trial data as it reports in. Each tick mark was a cause for celebration for us as it represented a positive response from an individual patient, 向澳门葡京赌博游戏展示澳门葡京赌博游戏工作的实际影响. The personal connections we feel to each and every cancer patient, 不管澳门葡京赌博游戏是否认识他们, is what fuels our passion for this job – the why behind the what.

合作是成功的关键

在澳门葡京网赌游戏, our bold ambition is to contribute to the elimination of breast cancer as a cause of death. 仅在接下来的十年里, we hope to deliver medicines that can treat one in three breast cancer patients across subtypes and stages of disease. 老实说，这是一件极具挑战性的事情. And a goal that can’t be accomplished without an incredibly passionate team. 把聪明的人聚集在一起分享技能, 的见解, and different perspectives – that’s the undeniable power of a team and one of the things I love most about working at 澳门葡京网赌游戏. 特别是在制药行业, a collaborative approach accelerates the speed and volume of progress – and in oncology, 这一进步可以延长生命.

Survival rates and treatment options for patients with breast cancer have improved dramatically over the last two decades, 但澳门葡京赌博游戏的工作还没有完成. 有人问我，澳门葡京赌博游戏会不会累. 答案是否定的. 澳门葡京赌博游戏的使命太伟大了. 这就是让澳门葡京赌博游戏永远有动力的原因, 过移动, and ever focused on discovering potential solutions to ensure all patients with breast cancer receive optimal breast cancer care.

这是一个新系列的第一版: 肿瘤学先驱， which will spotlight colleagues on the 澳门葡京网赌游戏 肿瘤学 team who are making an impact, 无论是个人还是职业.