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D. Ross Camidge
@drcamidge.bsky.social
Oncologist, writer, award-winning ‘How This is Building Me’ Onclive podcast host - fan of truth, creativity and humor
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Every year since 2018 we have gathered 5 or more year survivors of lung cancer together at CU to show others that hope has a face. This is the May 11th 2024 gathering. Rock on!
My friend julie is my trainer and an award winning wildlife photographer. What happens when a photographer gets breast cancer and a double mastectomy two weeks ago? This…
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Another day, another chess match in a cat cafe. This time against the legendary wildlife photographer and former chess club nerd, Julie Price. She bragged about crushing me in every one of our prior matches but with kitty distractions in place the tables were turned today. Oh yeah!
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Me and my oldest daughter (16 next week) playing chess in Denver’s cat cafe today. Our favorite from this morning was Mr black n white, but luckily we escaped unburdened by another animal to look after
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
My very own ‘f you cancer’ t-shirt courtesy of Stacy Stoutenberg in clinic this week. The club that no one wants to be a member of actually has really fun members once you’re in it!
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
First day of CU’s ‘B fit B well’ exercise program for cancer patients. Waiting to meet the trainers
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is a mirror image of an article i wrote with jose pacheco on characteristics of ALK longterm survivors www.jtocrr.org/article/S266...
Characteristics of Short-Term Survivors With ALK or ROS1-Altered Metastatic NSCLC
The prognostic significance of baseline and on-treatment brain and liver metastasis in ALK+ or ROS1+ metastatic NSCLC (mNSCLC) remains unclear. As we consider intensification strategies, it is critica...
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November 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Happy Halloween from The Oncologist’s Garden
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Paul Bunn, MD, inaugural director, and @drcamidge.bsky.social, MD, PhD, director of thoracic oncology, both share what has changed during their time with the CU Cancer Center and what the next 40 years can bring ⬇️
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The Colorado Public Radio interview with Andrea Dukakis aired this week. Andrea had lost her daughter to a brain tumor and so cancer is something that has touched her and her family directly. www.cpr.org/2025/10/28/l...
He has the same disease as his patients. How a renowned lung cancer doctor is facing life and death
Dr. Ross Camidge hopes talking about his cancer can help to de-stigmatize terminal illness and demonstrate that a person with cancer can still be a productive member of society.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Happens to be 40 year anniversary of cu cancer center this year. I recorded this video while still havibg a fine head of scabs from my own cancer treatment but i think I still come over as me. Skin is only skin deep after all www.instagram.com/reel/DQM_p1D...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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After his lung cancer diagnosis, @drcamidge.bsky.social created the 90-Day Challenge — a way to reclaim time between scans by doing something meaningful.

From yoga to painting, he chose purpose over fear – news.cuanschutz.edu/cancer-cente...
October 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
90 Day Challenge today was take a knitting class with my friend Stephanie
October 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The Oncologist’s Garden: winter colors. The seed goes quickly as the temperatures drop. Fewer birds but those that stay need the food all the more. Even a magpie hopped by today
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Checking out Checkpoint Charlie in a whirlwind visit to Berlin this weekend during the ESMO meeting
October 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Had fun recording an interview with Colorado Public Radio’s Andrea Dukakis today. She didn’t shy from the big questions. ‘So would you use MAID?’ ‘What do you think happens after death?’
October 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It took me a while to get the cat joke. Dogs can’t screen for lung cancer but catscan. What a delight to meet Dusty Donaldson on her lung cancer screening awareness tour together with Jamie Studts the man who helped boost Kentucky’s screening rate from the lowest to nearly the highest in the USA.
October 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A normal Monday: The incomparable James Hall, videographer for the GO2 Foundation, prepping in my office for an interview about Bonnie J Addario
October 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving
October 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I just finished ‘unbroken’ (courtesy of Denver Public Library). Unbroken has two meanings here - both the resilience of Louis Zamperini, Olympian, airman, crash survivor, POW, alcoholic, saved Christian. Also the sense of unbroken records, of exceptionalism -
October 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The HTIBM Files Episode 27: Me and JFZ. I first met Jeanne Fourie-Zirkelbach on a call with the FDA about someone’s drug in development that i was advising on. She was the smartest person in the room bar none. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
PRO Research Is Key for a Patient-Focused Oncology Pharmacology Career: With D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, and Jeanne Fourie Zirkelbach, PhD
Podcast Episode · How This Is Building Me · 10/09/2024 · 1h 1m
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October 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
What makes a good day? A still warm enough day to put the top down on my 2004 convertible? Stepping back from a committee (even if it was fun)? Sharing the house with a curious cat? 😀 All of the above today
October 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The Oncologist’s Garden: Shaggy Ink Cap and rare yellow puffball
October 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The Oncologist’s Garden: From footprint to footprint. As the days get shorter, memories stir. 71 years from first house to resurrected house on the same site.
October 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The Oncologist’s Garden: Seasonal breakouts.
October 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Josh Reuss, me and Steve Liu. The ringleaders of the DC Lung Cancer Conference (and me and Tom Marron photobombing) having fun in the nation’s capitol
October 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM