Scientist Whitney Henry
On Quest to Find Cure
for Cancer
A St.Lucian Research Scientist, Whitney Henry, has
moved the needle closer to finding a cure. Her
findings thus far are impressive and involves that
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little inexpensive pill many of us, our parents and
fore-parents used for pain and inflammation and
ancer! A six letter word wreaking
havoc on the human race. St.Lucian
one that people use these days to prevent heart
disease, heart attacks or stroke — ASPIRIN.
Research Scientist Dr. Whitney
Henry PH.D is on a mission to stop it
in its tracks. We all know someone who is
Whitney's Journey in Becoming a Research
Scientist
affected by or whose life has been cut short
by the pervasive and nondiscriminatory Hailing from the community of Vieux-Fort, Whitney’s
disease — CANCER. Perhaps we ourselves academic journey began at the Vieux-Fort primary
are in the fight of our lives, hoping, wishing, school. She then attended one of the top secondary
waiting and praying that a cure is found in schools on the island — St. Josephs Convent(SJC)
our lifetime. and then went on to Sir Arthur Lewis Community
College(SALCC).
And so it isn't surprising that the World Health
Organization (WHO), says cancer is among
It was a pretty smooth trajectory up until …
the leading causes of death worldwide. In
2012, 8.2 million cancer-related deaths were “After A-level I thought I'd wait for a Cuban
recorded worldwide. That same year 14 scholarship to study Dentistry but that year the
million new cases were reported and is government wasn’t sure if there would be any given
expected to rise to 22 million within the next for this area," she recalls. "I was stuck and very
two decades. These statistics are staggering. frustrated.