A 2013 study found that 42% of researchers at the top seven cancer centers were foreign born. Closing Americas door to immigrants would be self-sabotageThis article originally appeared on STATIt’s a long way from where I grew up in Karachi,Pakistan, to the dining room in Vice-President Joe Biden’s domestic at the Naval Observatory in Washington DC. Yet that’s where I found myself one day last December, and along with a handful of other cancer specialists. We had been invited to offer our perspectives on the current cancer landscape,which contributed to shaping the “cancer moonshot”. I’m convinced that my perspective on medicine as an immigrant is what ultimately got me to the table.
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Source: theguardian.com