Opinion: The quiet joy of being an oncologist

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I knock on the door and open it. Before I say anything, there is silence.

My patient had been through more than someone in his 30s ever should: a transplant, post-transplant lymphoma, chemotherapy, a relapse in the central nervous system, months of treatment that had taken apart the life he once knew, and then another auto transplant. His entire family was there, sitting close together, bracing for what I might say.

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