The Davidoff Cancer Center at Israel’s Rabin Medical Center benefits from the support of the Davidoff Foundation’s international board and hosts a bi-annual international conference which includes top doctors and researchers from Dana Farber Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and other premier cancer centers from the USA and Europe.
In particular, the Davidoff Center has a strong relationship with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, which has hosted several Rabin Medical Exchange Fellows in recent years.
My father, Rabbi Walter H. Plaut, died from
colon cancer in 1964. He was forty-four.
I was six. Three years later, my mother,
Hadassah Yanich Plaut, uprooted our
family from Great Neck, Long Island to
Jerusalem, Israel to start a new life.
A group of researchers from Tel Aviv University has discovered how malignant tumors from melanoma, the deadly skin cancer, work. The group is led by a young lecturer and researcher, Dr. Carmit Levy.
For the first time in Israel, at Rabin Medical Center Stereotactic Body Radiation (SBRT) treatment is available for certain lung cancer patients using the Trilogy Linear Accelerator, the most advanced accelerator available today.