Jennifer Bires: A cancer diagnosis is a traumatic event for everyone
Jennifer Bires, Executive Director of Life with Cancer and Patient Experience for the Inova Schar Cancer Institute, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“A cancer diagnosis is a traumatic event for everyone.”
This sentence says it all. and yet, it’s often the emotional weight that gets sidelined in the conversation. While we’re seeing incredible advances in how we monitor symptoms and manage side effects. Technology is improving physical outcomes in powerful ways. But we can’t afford to let emotional and social support become an afterthought.
Too often, the focus stays on labs, scans, and metrics, while the person behind the diagnosis is quietly navigating fear, isolation, and life-altering change. That’s why whole person care matters. Not just in theory, but in practice. We can’t treat cancer—or any serious illness—effectively if we ignore the mental and emotional terrain patients must walk every day.
We need innovations that care just as much about how a person feels as how they heal.
That’s what truly drives outcomes—and honors the full complexity of being human. As we talk about new technology, the emotional side of serious illness can’t be left behind!”
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