Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

Because the disease often affects teens, side effects like infertility from current treatments are hard to bear. New research at Georgetown offers hope for an alternative.

Eating soy foods and cruciferous vegetables may reduce treatment side effects in breast cancer survivors, say a team of scientists led by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

“We don't really understand why creativity is so healing. But it's restorative, like sleep, and nobody understands that either.” — Dr. Caroline Wellbery, Arts & Medicine's faculty advisor.