Cancer, a complex, painful, and draining sorrow
A difficult stage, a constant lesson we borrow
It's not just the illness, the burden of one
But a trial that touches all, when all is said and done
The patient, the family, the team all around
In a subtle weave, where life's great lesson is found
But the gaze of the doctor, who guides life through the maze
Receives a great chance, a path lit by rays
Transforms the apprentice into a missionary's might
Through years with others' pain, towards transcendent light

In knowledge and in love, the mission of Oncology
When technique embraces selfless sympathy
It is ploughing the barren ground of one's own flaw
It is gathering the treasure of transformation's law
The righteous reward, the prize of duty fulfilled
Real happiness is built, the sunshine God willed

There are those who haven't broken the chains of ancient self
With a hardness in the heart, only thinking of pelf
For those the pain of others fails to ever touch
No true spiritual growth, they haven't learned much
Real happiness is built only in this way
In duty rightly done, until the final day
The Instructor reminds that everything will be done
By the mind's disposition where the soul has run
The patient, fragile brother on the road of life so steep
Is a charge of love divine, a promise we must keep

In knowledge and in love, the mission of Oncology
When technique embraces selfless sympathy
It is ploughing the barren ground of one's own flaw
It is gathering the treasure of transformation's law
The righteous reward, the prize of duty fulfilled
Real happiness is built, the sunshine God willed

To ease the pain, both the physical and the moral strain
To encourage them until the last thread of life remains
To see, through the soul's eyes, beyond the matter's guise
The radiant being that God entrusted to arise
The humble collaborator in the work beyond compare
It is vital to have compassion, to prepare

In knowledge and in love, the mission of Oncology
When technique embraces selfless sympathy
It is ploughing the barren ground of one's own flaw
It is gathering the treasure of transformation's law
The righteous reward, the prize of duty fulfilled
Real happiness is built, the sunshine God willed

The radiant, beloved, and generous being that God entrusted to him