| Dr. Norton is a medical oncologist with broad interests in cancer, with a specific focus in treating patients with breast cancer. His research concerns the basic
biology of cancer, the mathematics of tumor causation and growth, and the development of approaches to better diagnosis, prevention, and drug treatment of the disease. He is involved in many research topics such as the molecular
identification of genes that predispose people to cancer or otherwise cause cancer, the development of new drugs, monoclonal antibodies that target growth factor receptors, and vaccines. He is well recognized for the development of an approach to therapy called "dose density," or "sequential dose density." This is a new and more effective way of using anticancer drugs, based on a mathematical model which maximizes the killing of cancer cells while minimizing toxicity. |
