Personalized medicine. Modernized clinical trials. Next generation immunotherapy.
For decades, cancer treatment came down to three things: surgery, radiation, chemotherapy. But medical breakthroughs are revolutionizing the way doctors, patients and their families think about a cancer diagnosis – and complicating their decision-making.
What does it mean to live with cancer today? And how do we lead with empathy and compassion to ensure that the treatment is right for the patient? At People v. Cancer, The Atlantic illuminated stories from the frontlines of the cancer community, from the latest oncology breakthroughs to the power of the human experience.
Kate Bowler, Author, Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved; Associate Professor, Duke Divinity School
Sunita Puri, Author, That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour; Medical Director, Palliative Medicine, Keck Hospital and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California
WITH Jeanne Meserve, Journalist
American Association for Cancer Research Presents: Collaborations Against Cancer: Patients Partnering with Scientists
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Aime Franco, Director, Pediatric Thyroid Cancer Translational Research Laboratory, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Thyroid Cancer Survivor
Emil Lou, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation, University of Minnesota
Brian Rivers, Director, Cancer Health Equity Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine
Col. (Ret) James E. William, Jr, Prostate Cancer Survivor
WITH Erin Schumaker, Health and Science Reporter, ABC
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Hossein Borghaei, Chief, Division of Thoracic Medical Oncology, Professor, Department of Hematology/Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center
I-Fen Chang, Executive Medical Director of Global Oncology, Amgen
Linda House, President, Cancer Support Community
Jordan Laser, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
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Rose Gerber, Director of Patient Advocacy and Education, Community Oncology Alliance
Xenia Rybak, Cancer Survivor, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
WITH Adam Lenkowsky, General Manager, Head, U.S. Commercial, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Alyson Moadel-Robblee, Director, Psychosocial Oncology Program; Founding Director, Bronx Oncology Living Daily Program, Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care
Stephen Ross, Director, NYU Addictive Disorders and Experimental Therapeutics Research Laboratory; Co-Director, NYU Psychedelic Research Group
WITH Olga Khazan, The Atlantic