Cancer Stories: The Art Of Oncology

A doctor describes her 50+ history as a survivor of lymphoma treated with mantle radiation. Read the related article on JCO.org.   Transcript: The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care, and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. The Arc of Therapy-- From Cure to Humbling Legacy, Gene Bishop, M.D. In June 1965, at the age of 18, I sat in a room with my parents and heard an oncologist tell me that I had Hodgkin lymphoma. If I shared that diagnosis with people, he said, they would look at me as if I were dying, because almost no one with this disease survived, but I would. With breathtaking confidence, the oncologist said a new treatment, radiation, would cure me. In October 2018, at the age of 71, I sat in