March 2016

Hematology/oncology fellowship coordinator, Theresa Marcus, reflects on what it was like to receive a diagnosis of cancer, experience recurrence, and later learn that she had finally become cancer-free with the help of her colleagues.

Faisal Musa, MD, reviews the case of a patient with large granulocytic leukemia and discusses why collaborating with the patient’s pathologist was so important to her diagnosis.

Devin C. Flaherty, DO, PhD, a surgical oncology fellow, discusses the evolution of interdisciplinary tumor board conferences and remarks on why they are so beneficial to the care of patients with cancer.