# Guidance for Healthcare Professionals: Delivering Tough News To Blood Cancer Patients

> Join us for an insightful webinar designed to equip healthcare professionals with the tools needed to navigate one of the most challenging aspects of patient care: delivering difficult news to blood cancer patients. Our expert panel will share their knowledge to ensure these conversations are conducted with empathy, clarity, and respect. This session will explore the emotional and psychological dimensions of communicating tough news, offering guidance on how to support patients and their families during these critical moments.

- **URL:** https://www.nbmtlink.org/guidance-for-healthcare-professionals-delivering-tough-news-to-blood-cancer-patients/
- **Author:** Joe Kiwior
- **Published:** 2025-03-10
- **Modified:** 2025-12-04

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# Guidance for Healthcare Professionals: Delivering Tough News To Blood Cancer Patients

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Join us for an insightful webinar designed to equip healthcare professionals with the tools needed to navigate one of the most challenging aspects of patient care: delivering difficult news to blood cancer patients. Our expert panel will share their knowledge to ensure these conversations are conducted with empathy, clarity, and respect. This session will explore the emotional and psychological dimensions of communicating tough news, offering guidance on how to support patients and their families during these critical moments.

###### Speakers

**Andy Harris, MD**Member of the MSK Kids Transplant and Cellular Therapies program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY

**Jennifer Gillette, LCSW**Staff Social Worker at the National Bone Marrow Transplant LINK, and provides counseling at a private practice in Troy, MI

###### Sponsors

- HealthTree Foundation

##### Downloadable PDFs

- [Deck 1 : Dr. Andy Harris, MD - Delivering Tough News](https://www.nbmtlink.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dr.-Harris-Delivering-Tough-News-Health-Tree-Foundation-Webinar-Talk.pdf)
- [Deck 2 : Jen Gillette, LCSW - Helping Patients When They Get Bad News](https://www.nbmtlink.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Jen-Gillette-LMSW-slides-HealthTree-Helping-Patients-When-They-Get-Bad-News.pdf)

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