Cancer Survivorship 101: Talking About Cancer, An Oncology Social Worker’s Perspective

"Talking About Cancer: An Oncology Social Worker’s Perspective", with Oncology Social Workers, Lauren Soules, LICSW, OSW-C and Roxy Lock, LICSW, OSW-C
Due to the quarantine, we had to cancel our annual in-person Cancer Survivorship 101 event that was planned for June, 2020. Instead, we created a series of video lectures presented here on our website and our KZbin page featuring the speakers that were to be highlighted at the event.
Talking About Cancer: An Oncology Social Worker’s Perspective
Lauren Soules, LICSW, OSW-C
Roxy Lock, LICSW, OSW-C
Oncology Social Workers
Mass General Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson
30 Locust Street
Northampton, MA 01060
Lauren Soules, MSW, LICSW, OSW-C
Lauren Soules holds a BA in Political Science from UMass Amherst and an MSW from Salem State University. Lauren worked as a medical social worker in home health and hospice for more than 6 years before joining the Mass General Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in 2019. She has enjoyed growing the Oncology Social Worker program over the last three years, increasing their presence and accessibility at the Mass General Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, developing new resources, and establishing relationships with foundations and cancer-centered organizations. Lauren resides in Hadley, Massachusetts with her husband and two children.
Roxy Lock, MSW, LICSW, OSW-C
Roxy began her healthcare career as a patient care coordinator at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Prior to joining the Mass General Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson Hospital as an oncology social worker in 2019, Roxy was a surgical oncology and reconstructive plastic surgery social worker at New York University Langone Medical Center. Roxy holds an MSW from New York University and BA in psychology from Connecticut College. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with her partner and daughter.
Survivor Journeys has been a non-profit organization since March, 2015. Its origins, began during the year-long medical quarantine Dr Jay Burton lived through after his stem cell transplant for Acute Myeloid Leukemia which ended in late October 2011. Dr Burton’s emotional and social support experiences prompted speaking engagements about cancer survivorship. The community interest generated from these talks, as well as the lack of emotional and support services for cancer survivors in our region, led to the creation of Survivor Journeys.
Learn more at survivorourneys.org