Vulnerable Conversations Contribute to Patient Advocacy Efforts to Propel Lung Cancer Research: With D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD; and Tillman Nechtman, PhD

How This Is Building Me, hosted by world-renowned oncologist D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, is a podcast focused on the highs and lows, ups and downs of all those involved with cancer, cancer medicine, and cancer science across the full spectrum of life’s experiences.

In this episode, Dr Camidge sat down with Tillman Nechtman, PhD, a lung cancer widower. Nechtman is a professor of British and British imperial history at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Drs Camidge and Nechtman discussed Nechtman's experience supporting and caring for his wife Laura during her lung cancer diagnosis and treatment; the emotional and practical challenges they faced as a family during her battle with cancer; and Nechtman's commitment to continuing Laura's patient advocacy work to advance lung cancer research.