Psychosocial Aspects of Oncology
Jimmie C. Holland · Robert Zittoun
Dec 2012 · Springer Science & Business Media
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The European School of Oncology came into existence to respond to a need for information, education and training in the field of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. There are two main reasons why such an initiative was considered necessary. Firstly, the teaching of oncology requires a rigorously multidiscipli nary approach which is difficult for the Universities to put into practice since their system is mainly disciplinary orientated. Secondly, the rate of technological development that impinges on the diagnosis and treatment of cancer has been so rapid that it is not an easy task for medical faculties to adapt their curricula flexibly. With its residential courses for organ pathologies and the seminars on new techniques (laser, monoclonal antibodies, imaging techniques etc.) or on the prinr.ir~-' ther::!PG~tic c0r'liuversies (conservative or mutilating surgery, primary or adjuvant chemotherapy, radiotherapy alone or integrated), it is the ambition of the European School of Oncology to fill a cultural and scientific gap and, thereby, create a bridge between the University and Industry and between these two and daily medical practice. One of the more recent initiatives of ESO has been the institution of permanent study groups, also called task forces, where a limited number of leading experts are invited to meet once a year with the aim of defining the state of the art and possibly reaching a consensus on future developments in specific fields of on cology.
About the author
Jimmie Holland was born Jimmie Coker in Forney, Texas on April 9, 1928. She received a bachelor's degree from Baylor University and a medical degree Baylor College of Medicine. She taught psychiatry at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1956 to 1973 and practiced at Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital in Buffalo from 1958 to 1972. After serving as a consultant on a joint Soviet-American schizophrenia research study in Moscow in 1972, she taught and practiced at Montefiore Hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. She joined Memorial Sloan Kettering in 1977. She was a pioneer the field of psycho-oncology, which is treating the emotional distress of cancer patients while their medical symptoms are addressed. She helped establish a division of psychiatry at Sloan Kettering. She was chief of the psychiatry service until 1996 and chairwoman of the department of psychiatry until 2003. She also taught at Weill Cornell medical school. Her book, The Human Side of Cancer written with Sheldon Lewis, was published in 2000. She died from complications of cardiovascular disease on December 24, 2017 at the age of 89.
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