When Substance Abuse Interferes with Cancer Treatment

Madhu Midathada, MD, Jason Mehta, BA, Rangaswamy Govindarajan, MD, A. Mazin Safar, MD, D. Micah Hester, PhD, M. Jameel Kyasa, MD, and Paulette Mehta, MD

At the time of this writing, Dr. Midathada was a hematology/oncology fellow at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and a staff physician at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS), both in Little Rock. She is now in private practice in Lincoln, NE. Mr. Mehta is a third year law student at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. Drs. Govindarajan and Safar are both associate professors in the division of hematology/oncology, Dr. Hester is an assistant professor of biomedical ethics in the division of medical humanities, Dr. Kyasa is an assistant professor in the division of hematology/oncology, and Dr. Mehta is a professor of hematology/oncology in the departments of internal medicine and pediatrics, all at the UAMS. In addition, Drs. Safar, Kyasa, and Mehta are staff physicians in hematology/oncology at the CAVHS.