Dr. Carol Westbrook MD PhD, is a licensed, board-certified Medical Oncologist with almost 35 years of experience in academics and clinical practice. At the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, and Boston University, her academic practice included teaching, patient care, and cancer research, and has led to authorship of over 100 scholarly articles, a patent in cancer diagnostics, and 3 books. Her Facebook website, “Ask-An-Oncologist” features her occasional blogs about cancer, and answers questions privately and anonymously from individuals with cancer