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Vulnerability Is Not Weakness: Creating a Safe Space for Your Patients’ Negative FeelingsGuest CommentaryMay 21, 2020
Why do patients hold back about serious side effects? Often, the reason is fear, writes cancer survivor and patient advocate Dr. Mary Dominiecki.
Practice and Patient Care
New ASCO Registry Helps Cancer Community Learn About COVID-19’s Impact on Cancer CareClifford A. Hudis, MD, FASCO, FACPMay 20, 2020
We have an urgent need to learn more about how COVID-19 is directly and indirectly affecting the people with cancer whom we serve.
Practice and Patient Care, Research and Science
An Oncology Trainee’s Perspective in New York City During COVID-19: Stories From the Front LineGuest CommentaryMay 20, 2020
As New York City moves toward its new normal, Dr. Astha Thakkar considers the lessons learned over the past 7 weeks of crisis and rapid change due to COVID-19.
Practice and Patient Care, Professional Development
International Medical Graduate Doctors’ Dilemma in the COVID Pandemic: To Risk or Not to Risk?Guest CommentaryMay 07, 2020
At a time when every physician is needed, U.S. visa restrictions on international medical graduates are making it impossible for them to do the most good, writes Dr. Sreekanth Donepudi. 
Practice and Patient Care, Advocacy and Policy
A Prescription for Managing Fear and Chaos in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Let Our Patients Teach Us   Guest CommentaryApr 30, 2020
Dr. Douglas Flora learned from his own cancer experience that when there's no wind, we must row.
Practice and Patient Care
Maintaining Cancer Care During the COVID-19 Outbreak: Perspective From South KoreaInternational PerspectivesApr 28, 2020
Dr. Jii Bum Lee and Dr. Sun Young Rha describe the safety protocols that are enabling cancer providers in South Korea to reduce the risk of COVID-19 exposure for their patients.
International, Practice and Patient Care
Love in the Time of a PandemicAnne Katz, PhD, RN, FAANApr 28, 2020
In the close quarters imposed by COVID-19, a conflicted couple began to relate to each other differently.
Practice and Patient Care
Passion in AdvocacyDon S. Dizon, MD, FACP, FASCOApr 21, 2020
Jennifer Merschdorf of Young Survival Coalition and I discuss how she brings her business experience to the social-profit space and the value of partnerships in advocacy.
Practice and Patient Care, Advocacy and Policy
CAR T-Cell Therapy: A Conversation With Dr. Jason WestinClifford A. Hudis, MD, FASCO, FACPApr 20, 2020
Dr. Jason Westin explains the science behind the transformative CAR T-cell therapy, and the financial concern it presents to our health care system and our patients.
Practice and Patient Care, Advocacy and Policy
Facing COVID-19’s Impact on Oncology Care: Rising to the Challenge Abdul-Rahman Jazieh, MD, MPHApr 20, 2020
Oncology professionals must take a systematic approach to the compound challenge they face: providing timely, safe, and appropriate care to their patients while taking care of themselves and their staff. 
Practice and Patient Care
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For the Well-Being of All: Cancer Care During the COVID-19 Public Health CrisisGuest CommentaryApr 14, 2020
A healing touch, a warm embrace—these are luxuries of patient care for another time, the joys of clinical practice that must be suspended, write Dr. Varun Kumar Chowdhry and Dr. Shilpa Mukunda Chowdhry.
Practice and Patient Care
Voice to Voice: Counselling in the Time of COVID-19Anne Katz, PhD, RN, FAANApr 09, 2020
As phone calls replace face-to-face visits with patients, how do we communicate empathy and understanding without the benefit of nonverbal cues?
Practice and Patient Care
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The Power of mCODE: A Conversation With Dr. Robert MillerClifford A. Hudis, MD, FASCO, FACPApr 07, 2020
Dr. Robert Miller and I discuss electronic medical records, interoperability, and ASCO's role in developing a set of standardized data elements for oncology.
Practice and Patient Care
My Twiend, JoeDon S. Dizon, MD, FACP, FASCOApr 07, 2020
Twitter + friend = twiend. My good twiend Dr. Joseph McCollom shares his experience in foster care, and we discuss resilience, inspiration, and hope.
Practice and Patient Care
Cancer Care in the Time of COVID-19Matthew S. Katz, MDMar 23, 2020
We can work to limit the spread of COVID-19 while providing humane, evidence-based cancer care.
Practice and Patient Care
2 Comments
Oncology Care and Education During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) PandemicNagi S. El Saghir, MD, FASCO, FACPMar 19, 2020
Sharing information for containment, prevention, and readiness for COVID-19 is essential. Here are some of the precautions we are taking in Lebanon at the American University of Beirut.
International, Practice and Patient Care
Not Business as Usual: COVID-19 Anxiety in the World of CancerGuest CommentaryMar 19, 2020
Cancer care providers and patients with cancer alike are grappling with new fears and uncertainities due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Dr. Nausheen Ahmed shares her experience practicing in Ohio.
Practice and Patient Care
Are Women Physicians a Patient’s Second Choice? Women in OncologyMar 12, 2020
"I have been in countless situations where patients preferred to see a male physician instead of me, simply based on gender bias," writes Dr. Asha Karippot. 
Practice and Patient Care

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