Dr. Bernard Eden: Cancer Treatment Centers of America is on the cutting edge of cancer treatment. Their on the cutting edge of cancer technology. We go to extraordinary lengths to make sure the we provide the best and latest treatments for our patients.
Tony and Annette Amos: They have the best of technology. They have the best of opportunity, they had choices, and they weren’t telling us what to do. They wanted to know what was best for us.
Jennifer Duch: I had a whole team of doctors looking after me and taking care of me. They were collaborating with each other trying to get the best treatment together for me.
Dr. Sybilann Williams: Everyone meets together and we go over every single one of the patients and identify any of the issues that may be arising in their care. So, we really do talk to each other all the time and are working to make sure that every need that the patient has is being addressed.
Dr Edgar Staren: CTCA refers to integrated medicine as a combination of traditional therapy and complimentary therapy.
Dr. Rudolph Willis: It’s important, you know, to make sure the patient’s nutritional status is addressed. To make sure that their mind, body, psychological well being is addressed. To address their spiritual needs, you know if that’s a priority in their lives.
Kalli Castille: We do focus on whole-person care here at Cancer Treatment Centers of America. We look at your mind, your body, and your sprit. We’re not going to just treat one piece of you.
Dr. Simeon Jaggernauth: Education plays a crucial component in a patient’s well being and their recuperation as well as their understanding.
Dr. Edgar Staren: It’s our obligation to bring information to the patient in terms they understand so that they can then make a rational, intelligent decision on how they want to be treated.
Letitia Cain: We believe in keeping the patient at the center of their care here. And what that means is that they are given a lot of different options from a lot of different providers, and we’re there to support them.
Roger Stump: The oncologist said, “Roger you’re in charge here we do what you want to do, you’re the boss.”
Richard J Stephenson: This is what it’s all about for me, it’s about mom. Mom meant the world to me and my family. She was our nurturer, our teacher, our disciplinarian, and the one person who would be there for us always. When mom was diagnosed with cancer we were there for her, but unfortunately the institutions of medicine were not. So when our family created CTCA we wanted to define a new standard of care we call it the Mother Standard.
Dr. Joel Granick: We’re there to take care of the patient as if they were our mother, our brother, our sister we have that, that degree of care for the patients.
Claudia Maestas: You know from the minute you get there it’s about you and about your illness and about we are going to design the best program for you individually.
Cathy Parker-Aavang: The first day I met with the doctor, met with everyone. They had me in scanners, PET scanners, and CT scanners, MRIs that day, that same day we met with the doctor late in the afternoon and he had all my test results right there.
Carolyn Lammersfeld: Celebrate life is a big event we have here where our five year cancer survivors come back and plant a tree to sort of commemorate their big milestone.
Claudia Maestas: This is absolutely the best place to fight it, you have every kind of support system that a person could need.
Valerie Yurchuk: Never once did I feel like I was by myself. Never once. And that you just can’t get from any hospital.
Joe Bacal: I was talking to my doctor about, you know obviously losing your hair and all the different side effects that chemotherapy has. She, you know, she was great she’s like “no this is what you are going to experience, this is what is going to happen here. At this time you’re going to feel like this, and we’re going to give you this for that,” and that immediately made me feel like she’s like two turns ahead, kind of like I am on a race track.
Kalli Castille: That’s all we do here is cancer and it’s what everyone here is focused on 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Dr. Bernard Eden: The patients definitely come first at CTCA
Richard J Stephenson: If you can change the face of cancer, remember the paradigm is about the consumer, you can change the face of medicine and that’s what we’re doing.