Cancer Stories: The Art Of Oncology

Listen to ASCO’s Journal of Clinical Oncology essay “The Side Effects of Caring,” by Dr. Aarti Kamat, a pediatric hematology/ oncology fellow at the University of Michigan. The reading is followed by an interview with host Dr. Lidia Schapira and essay author Dr. Kamat, where they discuss coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) after Dr. Kamat has a triggering experience with a teenage patient. TRANSCRIPT The Side Effects of Caring: Dealing with Secondary Traumatic Stress in Oncology Narrator: The Side Effects of Caring, by Aarti Kamat, MD (10.1200/ JCO.22.00736) “I don’t want to die in the hospital.” I could hear the young teenager crying in the background as I told her mother on the phone that she should come in to the emergency department. She had recently been diagnosed with a relapse of her leukemia and subsequently developed a systemic fungal infection. She now had a new fever that needed to be evaluated. She had decided that her goal was to pursue all possible treatments and interventions, so altho