Gertjan Rasschaert: Oncology Has Become Increasingly Good at Extending Life

Gertjan Rasschaert, Medical Doctor and Consultant specializing in Gastrointestinal Oncology and Gastroenterology at UZ Leuven, shared on LinkedIn:

“Oncology has become increasingly good at extending life. Has it become equally good at speaking about dying?

My reflective piece, ‘Against Cancer, Not Against Dying: Ernest Becker in the Oncology Clinic,’ is published today in The Lancet Oncology. Drawing on Ernest Becker’s ‘The Denial of Death’ (1973), the essay explores the uneasy boundary between therapeutic ambition and mortality – and asks whether, in our determination to treat cancer, we sometimes struggle to acknowledge death itself.”

Title: Against cancer, not against dying: Ernest Becker in the oncology clinic

Authors: Gertjan Rasschaert

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