Your Stories: Conquering Cancer

When grief is an occupational hazard, it’s hard not to bring work home. Lidia Schapira teaches doctors how to help patients approach the end of their lives. What kind of lessons did her children learn from a parent who regularly cares for and loses seriously ill patients? Lauren Goldstein talks to Dr. Schapira, her mother, the current Editor in Chief of Cancer.Net, and a Conquer Cancer donor about growing up in the shadows of cancer. Lidia Schapira, an oncologist specializing in quality of life, talks candidly with her daughter, Lauren Goldstein, about how she managed work-life balance while caring for seriously ill patients and raising young children. We learn that she approaches the care of patients with the same dedication and attention she has for her family, and how at times, that was incredibly difficult. Ms. Goldstein is a doctoral student in psychology at UCLA. Dr. Schapira is the director of the Cancer Survivorship Program at Stanford, a generous donor to the Conquer Cancer Foundation, and acts as t