Tag Archive - National Cancer Institute

Multidisciplinary second opinion centers

March 2, 2009 in 2nd Opinions, Featured, For Patients with 0 Comments

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. Continue Reading…

Treatment options

February 5, 2009 in Treatments with 0 Comments

Cancer is the most curable of all chronic diseases!
There is no type of cancer for which there is no treatment!
There is no cancer from which someone has not been cured!

But…cancer is an extremely complex disease. There are several hundred different kinds of cancer. Each one is treated in its own particular way by one or a combination of at least eight separate types of therapy Continue Reading…

Accessing treatment information – PDQ

February 5, 2009 in For Patients with 0 Comments

Cancer is the most curable of all chronic diseases!
There is no type of cancer for which there is no treatment!
There is no cancer from which someone has not been cured.

But…cancer is an extremely complex disease.  There are over 200 different kinds of cancer.  Each one is treated in its own particular way Continue Reading…

DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME DAY

June 3, 2001 in 2nd Opinions with 0 Comments

Sunday, June 3, 2001, which is National Cancer Survivors Day, is being designated as “DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME” day! The significance is to try to get all Americans to promptly get a qualified independent second opinion upon the diagnosis of cancer before any treatment. Continue Reading…