[Lien]

Hi Julie,

You are doing an immensely important job and working so hard to save lives, give us new options and we are noticing that! I know it must be hard to get comments about the language used in the industry, because you are not responsible for that. I get that. And it's not fair to blame you for something you cannot influence. Just keep doing the fantastic work you are doing now, and keep us informed. You bring us hope in a landscape that sometimes seems so barren. We keep hearing about drugs that might help us in the future, but none of us knows how long we have until our treatments stop working. Please don't leave this forum. We need people like you.

I too tend to think that we don't fail a therapy, it fails us. It didn't help us live longer, with better quality of life. But we cannot expect people to get that. Not unless they experienced it and felt how harsh those words felt. We did not fail, the drugs failed, or the cancer failed to respond. But you are in no way responsible for the use of that kind of language in the industry you work for. I do believe that all those people giving all their energy and years of their lives for cancer research only have the best intentions. Perhaps a couple of them are in it for the money, but hey, they could have gone into banking and that would not have helped us, would it?

Please stay, or come back when you feel the time is right for you.

Love

Jacqueline