Dr. Daniel Nader: At Cancer Treatment Center I think that the patient has the best opportunity of taking advantage of all the things that would be available for that patient’s treatment and I think that with the support of the staff and the ancillary staff and the other supportive measures that we have here, I think that that gives that patient the best opportunity to have every chance of getting well and beating cancer.
Well I think the general philosophy of Cancer Treatment Center is not just medical oncology or not just radiation oncology but a team approach in which other ancillary things such as nutrition and other services can be offered because we feel that if you employ all of those things the patient is going to have their best response to treatment.
And I think all of us are fighters against cancer, all the staff – the nursing staff, all the ancillary staff, the support staff, and if you have this whole team approach in attempting to fight cancer I think it’s going to give the very best chance for a good result.
I am Dr. Daniel Nader. I am the pulmonologist here, which is a specialist in lung diseases, and I specifically participate in the care, diagnosis and management of those patients who have lung cancer.
I think when a patient realizes how much support that they have with all these entities, I think it rejuvenates them and gives them new hope that they may not have had elsewhere. Now all of these things have an important role, the exact nature of those would be patient-dependent.
But a lot of times I think that patients come in a very poor nutritional state because of all the treatments that they have had and their nutritional aspects had not been addressed. When you combine that along with more comprehensive medical oncology, radiation oncology and the things that we can provide from the respiratory standpoint, especially in the lung cancer patient, I think it gives the patient the best opportunity to improve.
Again, I really appreciate the support of the Center itself in providing state-of-the-art technology that allows us to do the things that we can do best and we don’t have to worry about saying ‘Well we can’t do that here therefore that’s not an option for you’. We can do it here.
And so it allows me to tell the patient with the fullest confidence that I have, especially from a respiratory standpoint, that I am going to be able to do everything I can to help that patient with regards to their respiratory status.