 Good afternoon and welcome to our social media corner. I'm Diana and I'm the social media manager at IAEA. Our scientific forum just kicked off this morning and it will continue tomorrow. This year, the forum is about how nuclear science and technology can help countries deliver cancer care for all. If you want to watch the afternoon sessions, check the link in the comment section. Now, I'm very pleased to introduce you to our next guest, Dr. Shekin Elmore. Dr. Elmore, a radiation oncologist and researcher, is our cancer survivor and it is our pleasure to have her here with us today, sharing her experiences and perspectives. Dr. Elmore, thank you so much for joining us today and welcome to our social media corner. It's my pleasure to be here. So, can you tell a little bit, our followers that are watching us online, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you came to be working in this area? Yes, as you said, I'm a cancer survivor and that's really how I came to work in radiation oncology. I was so inspired by the care that I received as a child and then later as an adult that I found my way into healthcare and eventually radiation oncology as well. And in your talks, you often say that you want to change the attitude of oncologists towards patients. What exactly do you think it's important to change and why do you think it is so significant? Yeah, so it's a great question. I was just talking to someone after I gave my talk, who's a radiation oncologist in Zambia and we were just talking about how some people really have kind of the technical skill and the compassion and I think that that's really what makes the best oncologists generally and radiation oncologists in particular. I think that oftentimes oncology can become a little bit distanced from the patient and sometimes you have so many patients that things inadvertently can become more like a number and I think it's really important to really bring it back to the individual patients and just remembering that the day that you're having, it may be the 10th, 100th patient that you're seeing that day that week but for every individual that's their only cancer diagnosis so I think it's really important to personalize and give as much compassion as you can. Definitely, definitely. And you are a specialist in radiotherapy. Can you explain to our viewers what are some of the benefits of using nuclear science in treating cancer patients? There are so many. I mean I think just radiation therapy in general, kind of meaning usually using high energy x-rays to palliate or cure cancers. I think the statistic has been quoted and probably will be quoted again. Really about half of people living with cancer will need radiation at some point in their treatment course and so it really means that radiation is so integral both for pain relief, you know it's really good at relieving pain, other symptoms, and a really integral part of cure particularly for patients with cervix cancers, childhood cancers, head and neck cancers just to name a few. Thank you, thank you. Diarrhe recently launched Resovope Initiative and this initiative aims to help countries fight the burden of cancer. How do you see the various initiatives in this area including Resovope coming together to complement each other towards a shared goal of tackling cancer? Yeah, I mean the Resovope Initiative I think you know as the Director General said is really raising hope because I think it really provides this centralized concrete framework that is really going to help countries bring new centers where there really is no center in the country which is true for 20 nations in sub-Saharan Africa to expand capacity for centers that are really doing well but could be regional centers of excellence and really lead the way in the region. And then for research because I think there's a lot more that we can learn about other uses of radiotherapy, the right dose, the right amount and I think as Dr. Abdel Wahab said to do more with less. There's so much that we can learn so I'm really enthusiastic about Resovope because I think it will be kind of this catalyzing force to bring all the other actors into play and coordinate them. That's amazing, thank you. Thank you so much for joining us today for this short but very inspirational and insightful conversation and I wish you the rest of a good scientific forum. As I mentioned before, our scientific forum is currently taking place here at the IEA headquarters in Vienna. If you are interested in knowing what's the role of nuclear science in the fight against cancer, check the links in the comment section so you can watch all the sessions. Also keep an eye on our hashtags, Atoms for Health and Cancer Care for All and let us know about the efforts that your government is making to fight cancer in your country. Bye for now and thanks for tuning in.