DECEMBER 23, 2024

There’s No Business Like Show Business … Unless It’s Medicine

By Marie Rosenthal, MS
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Filemon Dela Cruz, MD

Filemon Dela Cruz, MD, a song-and-dance man at heart, loved the theater, and at one point in his life, he thought that is how he would spend it—dancing and singing on the stage. However, after his father died, Dr. Dela Cruz went from the musical stage to staging tumors.

“My father died of metastatic renal cell carcinoma in the late 90s, and he died in the context of an early phase clinical trial. Although it did not have a good ending,