Dr. Joyce A. O’Shaughnessy has been described by her peers at Baylor Scott and White as a “legend in the space” of breast cancer research and treatment.
Her expertise has been recognized internationally from her time at Yale Medical School to now, as she celebrated 40 years of work in oncology.
“I got into oncology when my sister, my baby sister, back in 1970, was diagnosed with leukemia,” O’Shaughnessy said. “I just had this feeling that oncology was going to explode as a field in terms of what we understood and the treatments that we could give.”…