Michael Retsky

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health United States

Biography:

Michael Retsky (PhD in Physics from University of Chicago) made a career change to cancer research thirty years ago. He was on Judah Folkman’s staff at Harvard Medical School for 12 years. Diagnosed with stage IIIc colon cancer in 1994, he opted for a low dose long term chemotherapy protocol that is now called metronomic chemotherapy. Retsky is Editor and Romano Demicheli is Co-Editor of a Springer/Nature book on breast cancer published in July 2017. Retsky is a founder of the Colon Cancer Alliance and has published more than 90 papers in physics and cancer.