Considerations for Taking Oncology Care "to the Ends of the Earth": With D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD; and Michael Smylie, MBBS, FRCPC

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 sits down with Michael Smylie, MBBS, FRCPC, a professor in the Department of Oncology in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta and a medical oncologist at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, Canada.

Drs Camidge and Smylie discussed Dr Smylie’s experience treating patients who live in the Northwest Territories of Canada, including the challenges he encounters when providing oncology care to such a vast geographic area, unique considerations when treating a predominantly indigenous community, and how his own colon cancer diagnosis influenced his relationship with patients.