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Lizards in Training

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Featured: Warren Mosler and Elizabeth O’Tool training at altitude for the PMC 2017

How Does Palliative Care Help Cancer Patients?

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Original post date: July 12, 2017
Reposted from the Dana Farber Blog

 
Cancer is a serious illness – at any stage – and patients often experience painful symptoms and side effects that can make treatment more difficult to tolerate, both physically and emotionally. Seeking assistance from palliative care professionals can help patients maintain quality of life throughout treatment. But what do palliative care clinicians do, and how do they fit in with the rest of the care team?

Douglas Brandoff, MD and colleagues (with John Halporn, MD in photo) in Adult Palliative Care provide pain and symptom management support to patients at every stage of illness. Photo by Sam Ogden.
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Remembering Dave

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Team Lizard is sad to announce that Dave Mittelman, one of the Team Lizard founders, recently died of brain cancer. Dave rode the PMC for 28 years and has forever held great pride in Team Lizard, inspiring his wife and all three of his children to become PMC riders as well. During his 8 months of treatment, he enrolled in a clinical trial at Mass General Hospital, contributing his data to the mix in the hopes that one day there will be a cure, let alone a preventative approach for this type of cancer. Alongside wife and life partner, Michele, Dave turned Team Lizard into one of the highest grossing teams in PMC history. Team Lizard will not be the same without him. Please read his obituary here.