Such an image has tremendous force because oncology is a grim battle against sickness, which is ultimately based on human compassion. It depicts an oncologist during a consultation, possibly examining scans or treatment records, with a look which combines a keen intellectualism and a real approach to the patient and to his own work, with a kind of honest regard which is, to my mind, irreplaceable by artificial commercialism. This visual image is an iconic representation of what the specialty is all about, which is using the complex medical methods that are mostly sophisticated but never forgetting that the individual making the battle hero is at the centre of it all. It is the key aspect, the most important part of the oncologist, who turns into the planner in a biological war and a calm spiritual shepherd, who creates the realistic hope and cooperation in the hard process of cancer treatment.