Cancer Doctors – Dr. Joel Granick
This video features Dr. Joel Granick, medical oncologist at Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) at Midwestern Regional Medical Center. Dr. Granick discusses the importance of empowering patients and giving them options for their care:
"At CTCA, we have the attitude that the patient is at the helm of the ship, and we are sort of navigators. We try to give them instructions to be able to help them go through a tight passage.
We get a lot of patients here who have been given prognoses based on what the journals say life expectancy is. But, we have to remember that patients are not statistics in a journal. They are individuals…The prognosis is not based on what is in a journal; it’s based on the treatment that they receive and the will-power they have to try to fight the disease."
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