New cancer treatments should inform patients about quality of life beyond side effects

Every doctor or nurse has "the one" - that memorable patient who made a career-shaping impression. For me it was a 13-year-old boy with leukemia. I'll call him Joey, although that's not his real name. When I met him 20 years ago, childhood leukemias, like acute lymphocytic leukemia, were generally considered curable. What Joey had, acute…