Cancer doesn’t take away from the beauty of life

Physician
September 10, 2017

As an oncologist, I have spent my career learning how to break bad news. I am still not entirely sure how to tell my children about the tumor in my pancreas, why I will be gone from our home next week for a Whipple operation, or my excuse for abstaining from wrestling matches for the foreseeable future.

I am blessed with two kids, temperamentally diametric: a careful, sagacious nine-year-old daughter and …

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Cancer doesn’t take away from the beauty of life

After 8 years, this doctor is finally treating his pancreatic tumors

Conditions
September 6, 2017

I’ve known that I’ve had tumors in my pancreas since 2009. Until now I’ve done nothing about them.

This might sound like a counter-intuitive, even foolhardy strategy, especially for an oncologist, who should surely know better than to let his disease gain an advantage through his own inaction. But I don’t have the “usual” type of pancreatic cancer, the kind that claimed the life of Patrick Swayze and has sentenced many …

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After 8 years, this doctor is finally treating his pancreatic tumors