Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology

Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology article, "When Survival Separates" by Dr. Courtney Hall, who is a Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and a Pediatric Critical Care Nurse Practitioner at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The article is followed by an interview with Hall and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Hall reflects on friendship, survivorship, and the impossible tension of learning to live after cancer while grieving.
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Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology article, "Purple Blossoms" by Dr. Ramesh Gopal, who is an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center. The article is followed by an interview with Gopal and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Gopal explores the challenge of maintaining the positive attitude of a coach while treating an aggressive disease in an underserved area.
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Listen to JCO's art of Oncology article, "The Patient Who Could Not Die," by Dr. Erika Ramsdale, who is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center. The article is followed by an interview with Ramsdale and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Dr. Ramsdale meets a patient who was never born and would never die and considers what AI can (and can't) teach about the art of connection.
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Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology poem, "Forty" by Frantz Berthaud, who is Senior Vice President of Oncology Services at University Medical Center of El Paso. The poem is followed by an interview with Berthaud and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Berthaud discusses grief, survival, and mortality in his poem, which honors his sister's life and battle with cancer.
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Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology article, "He Was Always There" by Dr. Vangipuram Sai Shreya, who is a postgraduate resident in General Medicine at Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research in Chennai, India. The article is followed by an interview with Vangipuram and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Dr. Vangipuram reflects on how not every patient is on the chart.
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