by specicaretk | Aug 31, 2018 | Blog
Why should any cancer patient question the “standard of care?” The standard of care is the thoroughly vetted and accepted way of providing cancer care. Most of the time, it provides the best opportunities for cure and survival. And, if this is so, is it not the...
by specicaretk | Jun 30, 2018 | Blog
This past Tuesday evening, I attended the nursing pinning ceremony for Shelia Thomas, who worked with me for the past fifteen years as a CNA before going back to nursing school. At her ceremony, the main speaker played a powerful four minute video created by the...
by specicaretk | May 15, 2018 | Blog
One of the things I do as an oncologist is take care of a lot of patients with advanced cancer of the colon and rectum. Many of these patients who have metastatic cancer go through surgeries and chemotherapies. Many do well and survive, but a significant number...
by specicaretk | Mar 6, 2018 | Blog
Alternative cancer treatments mean, to some, over-the-counter herbs and vitamins. But these are not real alternatives to the solid standard of care cancer care available today. Cancer care, as practiced by our highly trained community of cancer doctors and nurses,...
by specicaretk | Feb 8, 2018 | Blog
Each year in the United States we lose more than one out of every three patients who has cancer. That adds up to 600,000 lives ended too early in the U.S. every year. Standard therapies have evolved since modern cancer surgery got its start around 1880, radiation...
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