Part I: Superhero Sighted at Cancer Center!
On January 18, the last day of radiation treatment for cancer patient Elizabeth Hay, she got to meet one of her superheroes in the flesh – Spiderman aka Dr. Craig Silverman.
In a long-standing tradition, Dr. Silverman of the Radiation Oncology Department of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, honors the requests of his pediatric oncology patients on their last treatment day by letting them “do something to him or ask him to do something.”
Elizabeth, who is 10, has a cancer called anaplastic astrocytoma, and after six weeks of radiation treatments, her request was for Dr. Silverman to dress up like Spiderman. Soon, the staff joined in the fun with silly string “web” fights.
Though the Brown Cancer Center is primarily an adult facility, the center treats approximately 40-50 pediatric patients for radiation oncology annually. To learn more and to see a fun video from this special event, please click here. 
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