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When I teach the structure of cancer to first-year medical students, I go well beyond the causes and mechanisms of the disease. Medicine has changed since my own siloed training in pathology. Now many medical schools leap into humanism. In addition to learning about pathophysiology, cancer genetics, bloodwork, scans, and symptoms, students where I work meet a cancer patient, the patient’s family, and oncologist. They come to understand the decisions, treatments, and emotions that followed a difficult diagnosis and prognosis.
The patient they learn about is me. The tumors, test results, and treatments I present? Mine.
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