Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology

Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology article, "To Be Loved" by Dr. Abigail Driscoll, who is an Internal Medicine & Psychiatry PGY-4 at Duke University Hospital. The article is followed by an interview with Driscoll and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Dr Driscoll explores some of the challenges in caring for patients who are…

Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology article, "Art as a Shared Space: Tracing the Unseen Through a Body Map" by Dr. Goh Eun Choi, who is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Health Culture Initiative, Seoul National University. She also serves as a Guest Professor at The University of Suwon and a Lecturer in the nursing…

Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology article, "The Boy Who Became A Tiger" by Dr. Madhu Malar Prabhakar, who is a Senior Resident at Father Muller Medical College. The article is followed by an interview with Prabhakar and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Dr Prabhakar shares how her team was able to help a little boy entered the…

Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology article, "When Survival Separates" by Dr. Courtney Hall, who is a Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and a Pediatric Critical Care Nurse Practitioner at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The article is followed by an interview with Hall and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Hall…

Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology article, "Purple Blossoms" by Dr. Ramesh Gopal, who is an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center. The article is followed by an interview with Gopal and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Gopal explores the challenge of maintaining…

Listen to JCO's art of Oncology article, "The Patient Who Could Not Die," by Dr. Erika Ramsdale, who is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center. The article is followed by an interview with Ramsdale and host Dr…

Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology poem, "Forty" by Frantz Berthaud, who is Senior Vice President of Oncology Services at University Medical Center of El Paso. The poem is followed by an interview with Berthaud and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Berthaud discusses grief, survival, and mortality in his poem, which honors his…

Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology article, "He Was Always There" by Dr. Vangipuram Sai Shreya, who is a postgraduate resident in General Medicine at Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research in Chennai, India. The article is followed by an interview with Vangipuram and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Dr…

Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology article, "Taking Responsibility" by Dr. Katherine Hicks-Courant, who is a gynecologic oncologist at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health. The article is followed by an interview with Hicks-Courant and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Dr Hicks-Courant shares how caring for her father with ALS…

Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology article, "The Small Cemetery Within" by Dr. Hakan Onder, who is a Medical Oncologist at University of Health Sciences Antalya Training and Research Hospital. The article is followed by an interview with Onder and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Dr Onder reflects on the unseen emotional burden…

Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology article, "A Shopping List" by Dr. Michael Krasovitsky, who is a medical oncologist at St. Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Australia and senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales. The article is followed by an interview with Krasovitsky and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Dr…

Listen to JCO's Art of Oncology article, "Indistinguishable from Magic" by Dr. Michael Slade, who is a medical oncologist at Washington University School of Medicine. The article is followed by an interview with Slade and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Dr Slade shares the challenges of day-to-day clinical practice in…