Audrey Elizabeth Evans, MD — pediatric medicine (oncology)
Courtesy The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia photograph by Jean E. Bubaker
Dr. Audrey Evans (b. 1925) developed the Evans Staging System for neuroblastoma, a malignant hemorrhagic tumor of the adrenal medulla that occurs mainly in infants and children. She also created a “home-away-from-home” for the families of cancer patients undergoing treatment and co-founded a summer camp for children with cancer and their friends.
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