Letter From the Editor: Hope Before the Data Catch Up

On the ninth floor of Duke University Hospital are our inpatient cancer wards. I don’t attend on the solid tumor service anymore, but I still recall […]

Letter From the Editor: Artificial Education

Cancer is a field that requires continuous education. Nearly all the treatments I use today for my patients with prostate, bladder, or kidney cancer did not […]

Letter From the Editor: Living With Regret, as an Oncologist

Regret is something I rarely felt as a young man, but now that I’m older, I experience it more often than I’d like as an oncologist. […]

Letter From the Editor: Ambassadors for Hope

Oncology is a hard field to be in at any time of the year, but especially now. It’s winter, the holidays are over, and the days […]

Letter From the Editor: Just Say Cure

Given the many difficult discussions we have with patients who have cancer, I find it odd that oncologists still struggle with the word cure. At the […]

Letter From the Editor: Patients’ Stories

I love a good book. It’s not often these days that I get to enjoy a novel, cover to cover, over a week or two. Sure, I […]

Letter From the Editor: My Avatar, Myself: The Promise and Peril of AI in Medicine

A lot has changed since November 2022, when we published an interview with Dr Daniel Spratt about the use of artificial intelligence to help predict which […]

Letter From the Editor: What Would You Do?

As oncologists, how many times have we had to answer the question, “What would you do?” There is always the temptation to answer it with a […]

Letter From the Editor: A Common Cause

Practicing in Durham, North Carolina, I have the privilege of caring for a wide range of patients—Black and White, old and young, rich and poor. People […]

Letter From the Editor: Lumpers and Splitters

I was having a dinner conversation with some of my oncology colleagues when the topic of lumpers vs splitters came up. We were talking about none other […]

Letter From the Editor: Who’s Your Advocate?

I don’t think we oncologists fully appreciate just how fortunate we are to have advocacy groups in our field. Most other fields of medicine would love to […]

Letter From the Editor: Incentive Planning

Entering the field of oncology means caring for patients who may die of their disease, and it takes a certain type of person to do this […]

Letter From the Editor: The Cancer in Your County

Cancer in individuals is largely a random occurrence. Sure, some people have a strong family history of cancer or harbor a germline mutation in DNA repair […]

Letter From the Editor: Empty Nest

Spring is here, which means graduation time, among other things. My youngest daughter is about to graduate from college and will be home briefly for the […]

Letter From the Editor: Taking Leave

Over the past two years, two of my younger male colleagues have experienced the birth of their first child. These were wonderful times that brightened the […]

Breakthroughs in Cancer Care

On rare occasions, we witness a true breakthrough in the treatment of cancer. I remember when Druker and colleagues published their phase 1 results with imatinib […]

Letter From the Editor: My Ongoing Debate

Some would argue that the first tenet of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is to “watch and wait” until patients have an indication for treatment. This tenet […]

Letter From the Editor: Doctors Without Boundaries

I was on vacation, it was 10 pm, and we were on our way home from dinner when I noticed that my cell phone had shut off. […]

From the Mundane to the Absurd

My family was downsizing our belongings, so I went to the Spectrum store to return a cable modem, cable box, and router that we no longer […]

Letter From the Editor: Dog Traits

Mojo, our family dog, passed away last month. Losing her made me realize what a valuable emotional support she had been for our family. As our […]