Lynette Bisconti: What amazes me when I come back is that yes, they are growing and the hospital has grown physically and gotten bigger. But what really amazes me is their commitment to being on the cutting edge of conventional treatments.
They not only have this commitment to cutting edge conventional care but then they have this other commitment to all of the other things that they bring to the table in ‘whole person care’ and it’s all under this one roof and they never ever waiver from that commitment.
Dr. Bernard Eden: Many of our patients come here from all over the world to get treatment here and because of that we need to make sure that we stay at the center of cancer therapy. It keeps us on our toes. We need to be aware of all the new treatments available for our patients and it allows us to be creative in treating patients because many times the patients have already had several types of chemotherapy, different types of surgery, even radiation in the past, and basically at their local community hospital nothing more can be offered.
We realize that and we provide the patient with treatment options that most places don’t have, and that’s very exciting as a physician.
Dr. Richard Schmidt: The perception in the past is that you have to be a mega institution in order to provide cancer care. That has changed because the technology has changed. We now have MRIs, CAT scans, ultrasound equipments, different aspects of care that this hospital has and it can afford to acquire. So you don’t have to go to a big institution to receive those things. Now they are right here.
Dr. Timothy Birdsall: As part of what we do at Cancer Treatment Centers of America to treat patients naturopathically we are using nutritional and dietary supplements, herbal medicines, homeopathic remedies, acupuncture, acupressure – we use a technique called hydrotherapy which is the topical application of hot and cold water, other detoxification kinds of therapies – all designed to stimulate the body to improve the healing process.
Lynette Bisconti: Cancer Treatment Centers of America has a pain management team that’s on call 24 hours, that returns your calls within minutes. They worry about whether or not you are in pain and they aggressively seek to restore quality of life and get you out of pain and keep you there.
Lawrence Wiggins: Cancer Treatment Centers of America is more aggressive in regards to our pain management. We utilize everything that we can to get a patient’s pain under control and still we try to keep the quality of life established with them.