died of brain tumors. Career and legacy Most of Sandberg's hematology and cancer research started in the laboratories at the University of Utah where he became a member and scholar of the American Cancer Society. In 1958, Sandberg worked as a professor of medicine and was appointed the head of the Department of Genetics and Endocrinology at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute where he furthered his research. Sandberg and colleagues in Buffalo, New York published the first report of a man with a 47,XYY karyotype in 1961. He was also the editor and chief of one of the first scientific journals on cancer cytogenetics in 1979 called “Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics.” Shortly after, he wrote his first book called The Chromosomes in Human Cancer and Leukemia. He taught at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine in New York before moving to Arizona with his wife, Maryn Sandberg, and four daughters, Diana, Jan, Ruth, and Nina, in 1986. In Arizona, Sandberg continued his teaching career at the University of Arizona College of Medicine as a professor of medicine and pathology. As of 1999, Sandberg was a consultant with the DNA Diagnostics Laboratory at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix with no interest in retirement. He spent his free time collecting art and lecturing at community centers about the history of the Jews. After his wife Maryn died in June 2013, Avery Sandberg followed three years later. Avery Sandberg was buried in the Green Acres Memorial Park on July 10, 2016, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Selected books The Y Chromosome, Part B: Clinical Aspects of Y Chromosome Abnormalities (1985) The chromosomes in human cancer and leukemia (1990) References American geneticists