Your Stories: Conquering Cancer

In this episode of Your Stories, Dr. Applebaum shares the hopeful news about conquering childhood cancers with fellow oncologist Dr. Douglas Yee and gives doctors’ orders for how all patients with cancer and their families can face every phase of a diagnosis with childlike hopes. Dr. Mark Applebaum, a kid at heart, uses every trick in the coloring books he shares with his young patients to improve the often long and brutal treatments they face. In this episode of Your Stories, Dr. Applebaum shares hopeful news about conquering childhood cancers with fellow oncologist Dr. Douglas Yee. He gives doctors orders for how all patients with cancer and their families can face every phase of a diagnosis with childlike hopes. So I'm a medical oncologist. I take care of breast cancer patients. So back when I was in medical school and training, I really wanted to be an all-purpose physician that took care of people. When I was thinking about that I said, well, maybe I would like to be a pediatrician. I went to do my pedi