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Erika Hamilton: Often times when people consider the hardship or “cost” of cancer and chemotherapy, these things are forgotten

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Oct 24, 2023, 15:16

Erika Hamilton: Often times when people consider the hardship or “cost” of cancer and chemotherapy, these things are forgotten

Erika Hamilton shared on LinkedIn:

“This is huge. Often times when people consider the hardship or “cost” of cancer and chemotherapy, these things are forgotten.

Jobs where “time off” is much harder to get
Childcare for treatment when you don’t have the funds and you ARE the childcare
Loss of revenue for jobs that aren’t salaried and instead commission or time-based and how to “make ends meet”

Programs like these are so important and start to help with the massive gaps that currently exist.”

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Erika Hamilton is a medical oncologist and the Director of Breast Cancer and Gynecologic Cancer Research at Sarah Cannon Research Institute (USA). In her role, Dr. Hamilton oversees the research program and clinical trial menu for gynecologic and breast cancer from a medical oncology perspective. Dr. Hamilton is a past chair of ASCO’s Scientific Breast Committee a ’21-’22, participant of the ASCO Leadership Development Program, Associate Editor for Clinical Breast Cancer, co-chair for Great Debates and Updates in Women’s Oncology Conference and a board member of the Susan G. Komen Foundation of Central Tennessee. She is active in the community, volunteering with Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee, the American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge, Ovarcome ovarian cancer support organization, Brentwood Baptist Church and the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.