{"id":8315,"date":"2017-05-31T11:16:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/?p=8315"},"modified":"2018-10-26T11:18:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:18:01","slug":"experience-with-cancer-a-blessing-in-disguise-for-uw-physician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/experience-with-cancer-a-blessing-in-disguise-for-uw-physician\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience with cancer a blessing in disguise for UW physician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Deming, MD, is a gastrointestinal oncologist at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwhealth.org\/uw-carbone-cancer-center\/47424\">University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center<\/a>(UWCCC) and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madison.va.gov\/\">William S. Middleton Veterans Hospital<\/a>\u00a0with subspecialties in the treatment of colon, rectal, and anal cancers.<\/p>\n<p>Deming\u2019s commitment to the field is no coincidence; his first-hand exposure to clinical oncology opened his eyes to opportunities to apply his lab science strengths. \u201cI had thought I wanted to be a pathologist and focus mostly on basic science research, because I had kind of been a lab rat for the beginning portion of my career. Once I actually got into the clinic, I realized how exciting it was to be involved in many aspects of colorectal research: things as basic as drug discovery, or target-finding through early phase clinical trials and national phase two and phase three trials, and seeing patients in the clinic,\u201d he said. \u201cIt has been really rewarding, because, I think, in each aspect, experience in the lab and experience in the clinic can really feed into each other.\u201d<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-3897\"><\/span>Deming\u2019s clinical experience took a personal turn just two weeks into his appointment at the University of Wisconsin, when he became a cancer patient himself. \u201cI accepted a faculty position after completing a post-doc here at the University of Wisconsin, and two weeks later was diagnosed with stage three rectal cancer. I underwent chemotherapy, radiation, surgery \u2013 about eight months of treatment \u2013 and, thankfully, have been cancer free ever since,\u201d he recalls. \u201cThat was four and half years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Deming, MD, is a gastrointestinal oncologist at the\u00a0University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center(UWCCC) and the\u00a0William S. Middleton Veterans Hospital\u00a0with subspecialties in the treatment of colon, rectal, and anal cancers. Deming\u2019s commitment to the field &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8316,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315\/revisions\/8316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}