The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
06/15/2026 | News release | Distributed by Public on 06/15/2026 07:57
UT Health Sciences News: A Legacy of the Heart — ‘Cancer Care is All I Ever Wanted to Do,’ Veteran Surgery Professor Says
Martin Fleming, MD, chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology in the College of Medicine at UT Health Sciences, remembers going door-to-door in Memphis as early as age 6 or 7 with his mother, a survivor of osteogenic carcinoma, to collect money for the American Cancer Society.
His father, the late Irvin D. Fleming, MD, also a Memphis surgeon and longtime UT Health Sciences professor of surgery, was a pioneer in cancer care and research and spent more than 50 years as a volunteer with the American Cancer Society, serving as its international president in the 1990s.
His son, Andrew Fleming, MD, one of the chief surgery residents at the College of Medicine, graduated Friday and will soon move to Tampa, Florida, to begin a surgical oncology fellowship at Moffitt Cancer Center.
Read more on the UT Health Sciences News website.
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