UH scientist wins national cancer research award.

The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation has named Dr. Carolyn Gotay of the University of Hawaii as one of two winners of its Professor of Survivorship Award.

The Dallas-based foundation, the largest private funding source for breast cancer research and outreach and the prime force behind the "Race for the Cure" events across the nation, awarded $20,000 to Gotay for her work with the National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C.

She set guidelines for incorporating quality of life issues into clinical trials for cancer treatments. …