[2] Following her graduation from Radcliffe College, she married Tomas Ganz in 1970 and began her medical training at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
In 1978 she took a faculty position at the UCLA-San Fernando Valley Program and established an oncology unit at the Sepulveda VA Medical Center to provide palliative care to patients from diagnosis until death.
[5] Working with colleagues at the VAMC and UCLA, she began a series of research studies examining the impact of cancer and its treatment on the quality of life of patients.
She was honored for her “extraordinary research accomplishments which have changed the way doctors and patients deal with the physical and psychological quality of life issues that follow breast cancer treatment.
[2] In the same year, she was also the lead author of a study which showed that patient-reported cognitive difficulties could be associated with neuropsychological test performance,[14] and received the European Institute of Oncology Breast Cancer Therapy Award.