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