Listen "Red Journal Podcast November 1, 2025: Where Does Hope Come From?"
Episode Synopsis
Send us a textEditor-in-Chief Dr. Sue Yom hosts Dr. Ben Corn, Professor of Oncology and Director of the Institute for the Study of Hope, Dignity & Wellbeing at Hebrew University School of Medicine in Jerusalem, and first author of our article published this month, ““Hope” Drives Quality of Life in Patients With Brain Metastases, But, the “Hope Center” Remains Elusive: An Analysis of NRG-CC003”; Dr. Vinai Gondi, Clinical Associate Professor and Service Line Director of Radiation Oncology in the Northwestern Medicine West Region, co-author on this paper and Principal Investigator of the parent clinical trial that enabled this study, NRG-CC003; and Dr. Tracy Balboni, Professor and Program Director of the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program, Director of Skeletal Radiation Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Center, Co-Director of the Initiative on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at Harvard, and the author of an accompanying editorial to this article, “Hope in Wisdom Past and for Future Clinical Trials.”