Frank Ruhli is both a medical doctor and a paleo-pathologist.
VOA: special.2010.06.29
Ruhli,who is a medical doctor as well as a paleo-pathologist, says looking back can help scientists look forward, by revealing how the disease evolved over time.
VOA: standard.2010.05.05
"We are probably overtreating a lot of patients, " says Harvard Medical School pathologist Mark Rubin, who is working on DNA tests to predict the future aggressiveness of a tumor.
"It's a very fine line you draw, whether it's new or it isn't, " says Peter Appelbaum , a pathologist at Hershey Medical Center and a professor at Pennsylvania State University.