JCO The Art of Oncology: Making Peace With Cancer (oncologist/ovarian cancer/PD-L1)

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..... As an oncologist, I read Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) with feelings of pride and empathy. I am proud of my own articles in JCO, but during the last few months, I have not been able to touch it. Why? If you change sides of the bed—moving from physician to patient—you begin to change your style of reading. I realized today that I was more interested in the Art of Oncology articles than in the Original Report articles. I realized that except for stories of pediatric oncologists who lose children to cancer, few if any of the Art of Oncology articles seemed to tell the story of an oncologist with cancer. Does this mean it is unprofessional to get cancer? Or that it is unprofessional to write about that experience?....