Sustaining a Cancer Community in the Era of Personalized Medicine  

 

Like our understanding of cancer and the care required to treat cancer in its many forms, the concept of ‘survivorship’ or ‘living with cancer’ is evolving. Each patient’s experience, even if they have the same diagnosis or are on the same treatment, can be vastly different from one another.  How then do you define what living with cancer means?  And, importantly, how do we honor each other’s individual experience and still find areas of common experience that can form the basis for community-building?

The conference is an opportunity to come together with other patients and families to talk about experiences and identify how, together, we can sustain an ongoing and supportive community.  We hope to learn from each other so that all of us can learn to thrive, here at Mass General and beyond.

Presentations

Jeffrey Peppercorn, MD, MPH, Director of the Mass General Survivorship Program

Don S. Dizon, MD, Director of the Mass General Oncology Sexual Health Clinic  

Betsy O'Donnell MD, Director of Lifestyle Medicine and Associate Director of Survivorship Program

Panel Discussion
Patients, family members and caregivers share their experiences on how they are moving from living with cancer to thriving

 

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