On today’s episode of The PQI Podcast we welcome Dr. John Marshall and his wife Liza Marshall. Dr. John Marshall is a medical oncologist and a professor at Georgetown University, and he is an internationally recognized expert in gastrointestinal cancers and the development of new treatments for cancer.
Liza Marshall left practice as a communications attorney in 2005 to channel her talents and energy into her family and her growing role at Hope Connections for Cancer Support, of which she is a founding member. In 2006, at the age of forty-three, Liza was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, the deadliest form of the disease. The recently released the book Off Our Chests: A Candid Tour Through the World of Cancer. In Off Our Chests, Liza vividly details her treatment, her feelings of desperation and vulnerability, the complex decisions she had to make from mastectomy to chemotherapy and radiation, and finally the elective removal of her other breast—all experienced in the sometimes uncomfortable public setting of being treated at her husband’s cancer center.
John’s experience as a caregiver forces him to rethink everything he has learned and teaches as a leader in cancer care. No longer able to maintain complete objectivity with his own patients, he ultimately exhausts himself trying to provide ideal cancer care for all. Today we discuss their book and their experiences of oncologist turned caregiver and of cancer patient and survivor.
https://www.offourchestsbook.com/our-book
https://www.amazon.com/Off-Our-Chests-Candid-Through/dp/1646870484