Early in my career as a consultation‐liaison psychiatrist, I was very involved with the pediatric oncology service at the Children's Hospital at Stanford. This was an exciting time in the world of childhood cancer, as effective treatments were finally available, life expectancy was increasing dramatically, and long‐term survival had become a real possibility. I was fortunate to secure grant funding for one of the early studies of psychosocial outcomes in pediatric cancer survivors, and the opportunity to spend many hours listening intently to children and their families who'd survived a war with cancer changed me forever.