Cancer researcher dies at 47 of disease she was trying to cure

Dr. Rachna Shroff, a cancer researcher who was diagnosed with her own aggressive form of the disease, has died. She was 47.The University of Arizona, where Shroff was an associate director of clinical investigations at the U of A Cancer Center and chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the College of Medicine – Tucson, confirmed the news on Oct. 12.