Cancer-clinic social worker offers pearls of wisdom

WARREN — Nancy M. Tamburro shared her understanding of the many ways people face cancer in her talk “All I Really Needed to Know I Learned from the Waiting Room” during the 20th annual Cancer Survivorship Day.

This afternoon’s event at Lincoln School, 2253 Atlantic St. N.E., was sponsored by Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital and the TMH Foundation in partnership with the American Cancer Society.

“I learned about intimacy ... in the sense of telling another person about your deepest feelings,” Tamburro said. “As a social worker, I learned this from experience and not from a textbook.”

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