Paige W. Lake is an Applied Postdoctoral Fellow in Behavioral Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, supported by a T32 training program. Her research broadly focuses on improving quality of life for people diagnosed with cancer through patient-centered communication and decision-making support. She studies shared decision-making between patients, clinicians, and partners, and examines how decision-support tools shape choices and help address patient needs. A key population focus is adolescents and young adults (AYA), including the unique psychosocial issues they experience and their information needs related to cancer treatment, fertility, and genetic risk. She also investigates the physical and psychosocial impact of immunotherapies—such as CAR T-cell therapy, stem cell transplant, and immune checkpoint inhibitors—among patients with hematologic malignancies. One of her goals is to integrate these lines of work to better understand treatment-related side effects, fertility risk, and fertility preservation decision-making among AYAs receiving immunotherapy. As a 2026 MAPCI Fellow, Lake joins a community advancing rigorous methods for cancer prevention and control research.