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Freefall: How Skydiving Is Like Cancer Surgery

Publish date: June 1, 2021
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Jeffrey B. Teitler, MFA
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Cancer surgery is filled with moments of fear, even for doctors. Our cameras follow as an oncologist confronts this anxiety in the second episode of our video series The Oncologists.

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Cite this: A Pivotal Moment in Cancer Surgery, Captured on Film - Medscape - Feb 18, 2021.

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