Dr. Molly Taylor recently found a long-forgotten journal from her college years. In it, she asked her young adult self: “Do I want to be a pediatric oncologist?” It turns out she did, and she went to medical school after studying psychology and microbiology as an undergrad.
Bringing together of all those disciplines, today she’s serving patients with cancer by studying how the body and mind intersect to impact survival.
Dr. Taylor is both a Seattle Children’s oncologist and a researcher who runs the Biobehavioral Oncology Research Program in the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. The program studies how psychosocial and neuroimmune processes influence pediatric and adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients with cancer.
