Paolo A. Ascierto, Director Department of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy, Development Therapeutics at the National Cancer Institute IRCCS G. Pascale Foundation, made the following post on LinkedIn:
“Being a doctor also means communicating. In metastatic melanoma, 50% survival is a clinical triumph, achieved thanks to immunotherapy research. But for patients, the same percentage can be a frightening figure, an ‘in or out’.
The real challenge is to find the right words to help patients understand. Knowing how best to interpret the role of doctor in a way that is not just scientific. In short, communicating effectively to make living with the disease as less traumatic as possible.
Thank you Gigi Ross for the video: a masterful portrayal of patients’ reactions.”