About This Video

One of the advantages of being a female researcher, says Mary-Clare King, was having the freedom to do whatever she wanted, without much scrutiny. But when she made a connection between breast cancer and their patient histories, her colleagues knew she was on to something big. She explains that this freedom, coupled with the support of her fellow oncologists, propelled her work into discovering that cancer was largely genetic.
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Recorded June 2011; Posted October 2011