How Supportive and Palliative Oncology Partnerships Provide Lifesaving Answers

Janet Abrahm, MD
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston 

Caring for patients with cancer can be satisfying and traumatic. We can feel on top of the world when someone’s cancer responds to treatment and helpless trying to get another patient’s illness—and their resulting pain, nausea and vomiting—under control. Oncologists have extensive training and receive daily email and social media updates on what to do for cancer. But we receive very little education