This is Episode 8: Foundations VII — Supportive Care I: Dental, Nutrition, and Mucositis.We have spent the last seven episodes talking about how to kill the cancer. Today, we talk about how to keep the patient alive while we do it. On oral boards, supportive care is the great differentiator. A candidate who can recite fractionation trials but cannot explain when to pull a tooth, when to place a PEG, or how to manage week-five mucositis is advertising inexperience.This is the “Don’t Lose the Patient” episode: the pre-treatment checklist, the on-treatment playbook, and the red lines you do not cross.