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Jane C. Wright

and Chemotherapy

By Virginia Loh-Hagan

21st Century

Junior Library

Published in the United States of America by

Cherry Lake Publishing

Ann Arbor, Michigan

www.cherrylakepublishing.com

Content Adviser: Kirsten Edwards, MA, Educational Studies

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Copyright 2019 by Cherry Lake Publishing

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means without written permission from

the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Loh-Hagan, Virginia, author. | Loh-Hagan, Virginia. Women innovators.

Title: Jane C. Wright and chemotherapy / by Virginia Loh-Hagan.

Description: Ann Arbor, MI : Cherry Lake Publishing, [2018] | Series: Women innovators |

Audience: Grades 4 to 6. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018003300| ISBN 9781534129108 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781534132306 (pbk.) |

ISBN 9781534130807 (pdf) | ISBN 9781534134003 (hosted ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Wright, Jane C., 1919-2013--Juvenile literature. | Oncologists--United States--Biography--

Juvenile literature. | African American women physicians--Biography--Juvenile literature. |

Women physicians--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature. | Chemotherapy--History--

Juvenile literature. | Cancer--Research--History--Juvenile literature.

Classification: LCC RC265.8.W75 L64 2018 | DDC 616.99/4/0092 [B] --dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018003300

Cherry Lake Publishing would like to acknowledge the work of The Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

Please visit www.p21.org for more information.

Printed in the United States of America

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| ISBN 9781684520947 (ebook)

CONTENTS

5 A Woman

11 An Idea

17 A Legacy

22 Glossary

Find Out More

Index

About the Author

Doctors can work in hospitals or labs .

A Woman

What happens when you get sick ? Most

sick people see a doctor . They take medicine

and get better . But some people dont get

better . They may have a serious sickness ,

like cancer . Cancer is a disease that can

cause you to feel sick . It is an abnormal

growth of cells . These cells can invade

other areas of the body . Many people have

died from cancer .

Although established in 1792 , Harvard Medical School

didnt admit an African American student until 1850 .

Dr . Jane C . Wright was a black doctor .

She saved many lives . Shes known as the

mother of chemotherapy .

Wright was born on November ,

1919 , in New York City . She was born into

a family of doctors . Her grandfathers were

both doctors . So was her father .

Her father was Dr . Louis Tompkins

Wright . He was one of the first black

graduates of Harvard University . He was

also one of the first black surgeons . He

created a cancer research center at

Harlem Hospital in New York City . Jane

followed in her fathers footsteps .

Black women doctors had to work harder than

others to prove themselves .

She went to New York Medical College .

She was a top student . But things werent

easy for her . She succeeded during a time

when blacks were not treated fairly . Most

doctors were white males .

But she couldnt be stopped . She

worked as a doctor for New York public

schools . Then she joined her father at his

cancer research center .

Ask your parents and grandparents about their jobs . What do

they do ? Do they like their jobs ? Are you interested in following

in their footsteps ? Why or why not ?

Ask Questions !

Only doctors , physician assistants , and nurse

practitioners can prescribe drugs .

An Idea

After Wrights father died in 1952 , she

became the head of the cancer research

center . She studied chemotherapy . The

chemicals in the chemotherapy drugs

make it hard for cancer cells to grow and

spread .

During this time , chemotherapy was

new and untested . Many doctors didnt

trust it . But Wrights research changed that .

Some people lose their hair during chemotherapy .

The drug attacks both cancer cells and healthy cells .

Because of her , chemotherapy is now an

effective way to treat cancer .

Wright studied how different drugs

affected different forms of cancer . She

made treatment more accurate . She

focused on treating people individually

based on their body and type of cancer .

Before Wright , doctors had to remove

tumors by operating on people . This could

be unsafe . Wright figured out a way to use

tubes or needles to send drugs to tumors .

She proved that chemotherapy

reduced cancer cells . She tested how

drugs affected people . She tested to see

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