As long-time readers know, in 2007 I nearly died from a severe case of kidney cancer. One thing that saved me was being very well informed by information I got from an online patient community … information that was valid but did not exist in the medical literature. (They’re now at SmartPatients.)

So my hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess, decided to start producing an annual patient information symposium, as part of the Dana Farber Harvard Cancer Center, to share such cutting-edge information directly to patients (and other clinicians of course). Free! Both online and virtual.

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