1 Centro Avançado em Terapias de Suporte e Medicina Integrativa (CATSMI) at Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, São Paulo, Brazil ana.coradazzi@terra.com ana@oncologicajau.com.br.
A medical oncologist describes the distress of hearing that her father had been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the respiratory tract and how people in general deal with moments fraught with emotion.