Multidisciplinary second opinion centers
March 2, 2009 by Staff 3,673 views
Filed under 2nd Opinions, Featured, For Patients
Many cancer patients are dying, not because treatments are not available, but because the initial physician failed to offer the best possible treatment. Cancer is an unusual disease for many reasons – if you don’t treat it properly the first time, often there is no second chance because cancer grows geometrically.
Often an initial treatment precludes [...]
Cancer Survivors Park
February 13, 2009 by Richard and Annette Bloch 911 views
Filed under Design Background, Programs
We believe that the second greatest correctable cause of cancer mortality (smoking being #1) is relating death and cancer. Many have been brought up to believe that a diagnosis of cancer means automatic death. Some believe that treatments are worse than death. When they are diagnosed, [...]
The origin of National Cancer Survivors Day
February 13, 2009 by Richard and Annette Bloch 396 views
Filed under Programs
Very close friends of ours live in Jerusalem, Israel. He is an extremely important and well known man there. Their son was married to our daughter for many years. Several years ago he needed open heart surgery. His family recommended he go to Baltimore, New York, Boston or Cleveland. Suddenly we heard he had the [...]
There’s Good News Tonight
February 13, 2009 by Richard and Annette Bloch 136 views
Filed under Knowledge
Cancer mortality drops for the first time in history! The age adjusted cancer death rate declined from 1990 to 1995 by 3.1% from 135.0 per 100,000 population to 129.8, the lowest it has been since 25 years ago. Further, the decline is accelerating and continuing at about 2% per year.
The authors of this report attribute [...]