Statement from Monica M. Bertagnolli, M.D., Director, National Cancer Institutes, National Institutes of Health
Statement
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
I was pretty recently diagnosed with early breast cancer. The prognosis is extremely favorable.
The cancer is hormone receptor-beneficial, HER2-destructive breast most cancers and seems to be confined to the breast. I will have to have surgical procedure and possibly added treatment. As is the circumstance for numerous persons after a cancer diagnosis, I’m in a waiting period of time appropriate now and there are points we really do not know. But thanks to exploration funded by NCI, responses about the procedure that is most effective for me will appear in time.
I am grateful to be obtaining superb treatment at Brigham and Women’s Medical center and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, in which I worked as a surgical oncologist for quite a few several years before coming to NCI in October. I have also enrolled in a medical demo concentrated on prognosis, and I’m delighted that my experience will contribute to the ever-expanding information foundation about cancer and tell improvements in care. I am grateful that I had accessibility to helpful screening and caught this early.
As medical practitioners, we are also human, and we are not basically various from the persons that we care for just due to the fact we are on the provider aspect of items. The affected individual knowledge is one thing that I feel anyone goes as a result of in life—although just about every individual’s knowledge is special, specially when it arrives to most cancers.
Obtaining been an oncologist my overall job, it was always—and nevertheless is—all about the sufferers and survivors. It is a single detail to know about cancer as a doctor, but it is yet another to knowledge it firsthand as a individual as perfectly. To anyone with most cancers these days: I am certainly in this jointly with you.
I am thrilled to continue on in my part as NCI Director and will consider go away as desired with some further assistance from NCI’s management staff. I want everyone with most cancers to know that they are not on your own. NCI is undertaking anything we can to do the job together—with all of society—to assist additional people today with cancer dwell the complete and lively life they should have.
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