Cancer Knowledge Network: Introducing Dr. Gregory Aune, Editor, Knowledge Translation: Childhood Cancer Survivorship

My patient experiences motivated me to pursue medicine and science.  I did so with the goal of improving outcomes for other cancer patients, once I had completed that long road.  But along the way, I began to consistently encounter health problems caused by my treatments.

It began with seemingly minor issues like hypothyroidism or an occasional scare from a new lump or mass.  Then 18 years after my diagnosis of Hodgkin’s disease I developed a second life-changing diagnosis.  My heart had been badly damaged by the chemotherapy and radiation I had received and I needed open-heart surgery to replace my aortic valve and bypass three blocked arteries supplying blood to my heart.

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