cancer doctor gets cancer

[jag]

we-meaning my mom and all of our family was shocked today ....we just found out that the doctor that is treating my moms breast cancer has come down with breast cancer her-self...yes-the doctor is human as we all are it is just kind of shocking news....a news paper in our area has done a story and called it cancer doctor gets cancer ....in the story the doctor states she did all the right things exercise-diet-mammograms..the doctor said that the mammograms-ultra sound all showed nothing....but she felt something firm in her breast and had a mri that confirmed the cancer...the doctor now is beginning chemo-with surgery and radiation to follow...the dr.said and i quote---cancer sucks....but i now know the emotional as well as physical stress that my patients feel and i hope this will make me a better doctor...we pray for her....thanks all of you for listening....it just makes me think....

[Lolly]

I'll keep her in my thoughts and prayers; when I pray for all of us I include our caregivers and doctors/nurses too. Thank you for letting us know and please keep us posted.

<3 Lolly

[julierene]

My Onc treats some skin cancers on his own face. His father died from colon cancer. He takes his fiber, but always fears he will get colon cancer eventually. It makes him so very compassionate. I think he almost cried when my cancer came back. I love the man, even when we don't see eye-to-eye.

[jojo]

I am sad that your doctor got cancer, but I hope her diagnosis changed her for the better -- more understanding, more empathy, more compassion. Let us know on her progress. Not many oncologists out there are, in fact, compassionate, right??

[michele u]

One of my oncologists that is a brest cancer specialist was going through breast cancer when i was 2 years ago. I think it happens alot because we know what the stats are and more dr's are women