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Dr. Li sought to improve detection and screening of very early lung and cervical cancers by combining measurements of cellular DNA content with complementary biological information. His work demonstrates new techniques that might be applicable to other cancers and cautions against approaching early cancers as isolated and uniform entities.
A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Oncology (PhD) - graduated in 2013