Matthew Herper, Senior Writer, Medicine, and Editorial Director, Events at STAT, made the following post on LinkedIn:
”At the world’s largest cancer research meeting, data briefly took a backseat to grief.
Every year at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s confab, thousands of oncologists scrutinize data on survival and mortality. But comparatively few conversations focus on the loss that is inherent in the work of cancer doctors. That changed a bit this year.
In his opening address, the organization’s outgoing president, Eric Small, spoke about his partner, University of California, San Francisco, oncologist Amy Lin, who passed away in December. She had metastatic clear cell ovarian cancer, a rare disease with few treatment options. Small also brought a different kind of specialist to ASCO’s mainstage: David Kessler, an expert on grief and loss, who gave a talk about compassionate end-of-life care.
Read this moving story by Katherine MacPhail.”
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