Closing the Gaps in Cancer Survivorship Care with Dr. Lidia Schapira

When someone is diagnosed with cancer, care quickly begins to revolve around protocols, diagnostic pathways, treatment regimens, surveillance schedules, and clinical decisions made under enormous uncertainty. But what often gets overlooked is the life happening all around it.The fear. The relationships. The work. The identity shift. And what it actually means to live with and beyond cancer.In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Lidia Schapira, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the inaugural Director of Stanford’s Cancer Survivorship Program.Dr. Schapira has spent her career focused on the lived experience of patients, shaping how oncology communicates through her leadership as Editor-in-Chief of Cancer.Net, ASCO’s patient education platform, and as editor of the Art of Oncology section in the Journal of Clinical Oncology for over a decade.We explore why survivorship care remains so difficult to embed into standard oncology workflows and the biggest ‘gap’ that remains in cancer survivorship in the U.S. We also dive deep into AI in medicine, and how we can expect it to affect and support survivorship care going forward.This is a powerful conversation about communication, judgment and presence, that anyone in oncology should hear.Covered in this episode:Why survivorship care is often overlooked in oncology.The importance of the patient’s lived experience after cancer.How AI could support survivorship care.Will AI become a mandatory standard for physicians?The ‘big gap’ in cancer survivorship care in the U.S.If you got value from this episode of Beyond the Chart, subscribe on your favorite podcast platform so you don’t miss the next one.LEARN MOREDeepScribe - https://www.deepscribe.ai/ CONNECTDr. Lidia Schapira on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lidia-schapira-83467811/ Matthew Ko on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/komatthew/ LISTENSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6IQlU4UeNKLLM4Y1lPTaOV?si=33679e9eb2294adfApple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-the-chart-exploring-the-ai-frontier-for-oncology/id1832485207YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@deepscribeinc.5623