To go into cancer medicine, you have to look at how much school you are going to be taking- and how long this will take. First, you will have to complete your first four years undergrad. This is what I am doing now. There is a common misconception that you have to be a pre med major. Well, obviously you do not. You can be any major you want when you apply to be an undergrad. However, if you want to go into medical school, you will have to meet all the pre requisites that are required to apply to that particular school. So, that is why you commonly find many pre med and science majors applying to medical school. Rather than theatre, art, dance, etc majors. The science majors will meet most, if not all, of the pre requisites that are required to apply, and you can earn a degree in the process.
After you finish your undergrad, you will go into medical school. This is another four years that you will devote to schooling. You have two years mostly book work, and the other two years are residency. Where you will put all of your knowledge to work under the careful supervision of a doctor in that field. The next thing I will do is complete an fellowship, the first being in pediatrics. This will take two years. A fellowship is something that you have to do when you want to become a doctor that specializes in an area. And since I am thinking about being a super specialty, I will complete another fellowship after pediatric- which is my Oncology/ Hematology fellowship. And then hopefully, I can start working after a long twelve years of training to become a doctor. (But I don't even think I will get out of San Francisco State in four years...!)
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