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cancer commercials

The ones that I hear are for Cancer Centers of America (I think, I don't usually pay much attention to them), they talk about the way that they assess and treat that is different from other hospitals. For instance, they use an interactive team approach rather than a doctor and the hospital lab. They claim that they team specialists for a more directed approach to your specific case. I think that's a good direction to go. Different hospitals have different specialties, the one my wife works at has an award winning cardio center. So I guess if I ever have heart problems I'm in the right place.

My wife works in the lab and I get to hear about the differences in doctors' approach. For instance there is one doc there known for prescribing and performing full historectomies rather than pinpoint surgeries like other doctors do. In a case like endometreosis that may be a better approach depending on the patient's specific needs rather than repeated DNCs over a course of years. My wife is awaiting results (tomorrow) on ultrasounds to determine if she is dealing with endometreosis or just complications of ovarian cysts which she has been dealing with for years. but she is 40 and has had her tubes tied, so if it is endo she might be better off with a historectomy instead of DNCs. One and done since there is no interruption to reproduction, especially if they can leave the ovaries. With a history of cancer in her family removing the ovaries and doing hormone therapy has a higher risk for cancer.
 
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tech30528 said:
The ones that I hear are for Cancer Centers of America (I think, I don't usually pay much attention to them), they talk about the way that they assess and treat that is different from other hospitals. For instance, they use an interactive team approach rather than a doctor and the hospital lab. They claim that they team specialists for a more directed approach to your specific case. I think that's a good direction to go. Different hospitals have different specialties, the one my wife works at has an award winning cardio center. So I guess if I ever have heart problems I'm in the right place.

My wife works in the lab and I get to hear about the differences in doctors' approach. For instance there is one doc there known for prescribing and performing full historectomies rather than pinpoint surgeries like other doctors do. In a case like endometreosis that may be a better approach depending on the patient's specific needs rather than repeated DNCs over a course of years. My wife is awaiting results (tomorrow) on ultrasounds to determine if she is dealing with endometreosis or just complications of ovarian cysts which she has been dealing with for years. but she is 40 and has had her tubes tied, so if it is endo she might be better off with a historectomy instead of DNCs. One and done since there is no interruption to reproduction, especially if they can leave the ovaries. With a history of cancer in her family removing the ovaries and doing hormone therapy has a higher risk for cancer.
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My wife says it's where rich people go when they get cancer, I tend to agree.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
Lately I am noticing a lot of TV commercials for cancer treatment centers and it just kind of rubs me the wrong way. It seems to me like greedy quacks are looking at cancer as a money making opportunity, they put these adds on showing people that beat cancer and have these great survivor stories but at the end of the commercial there are fine print disclaimers saying these results are not typical. I think these adds just take advantage of people that are scared s***less because they have cancer and the places that put these adds out just want their money, am I wrong?
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Lost my mom to cancer in 1992.
Trust me, oncologists are the most money grubbing SOBs out there.
The whole cancer treatment industry is a scam.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
My wife says it's where rich people go when they get cancer, I tend to agree.
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Not true about that. My current wife had cancer in her early 20s and was treated much better at the one somewhere in New England.
She was lucky, she lived. But only after a full hysterectomy.
 
CRUE CAB said:
Not true about that. My current wife had cancer in her early 20s and was treated much better at the one somewhere in New England.
She was lucky, she lived. But only after a full hysterectomy.
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Was it way more expensive than a hospital? Do you think she got treatment there she wouldn't get at a hospital? Honest questions, I'm not arguing here.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
I agree and I am very sorry for your loss, it is a horrible way to go.
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What was horrible was the way he would lie to her face then take me out in the hall and give me all the bad news.
I had to remind him that my mom grew up in the depression, was in Europe right after WWII with the Red Cross and treated wounded soldiers. Then spent a career in the DOD, married a DC cop and raised me. And I was no cake walk as a child.
She needs to hear the truth and not some sugar coated lie.
He treated her like she was a child and not an adult. Many think it was to give her hope, ok. I can see that but at her advanced age it was not like she was going to climb Mt Everest.
She was ready to go be with my father who had died a couple years before and spend what quality time she had with me and her pet.
But he just kept doing this test, that test, these treatments. All because she had good insurance, then had the stones to try to sue me for some 400 BS medication or treatment a month after her death that BCBS would not cover.
Lucky for me I never signed a liability or responsibility letter for him.
And that was something he came at me for a few times while treating her. Even though she was of full faculties and was never "out of her mind".
Most recently my sister in law Dixie, went through the same thing. She passed from cancer about 2 years ago. Different doctor and hospital, but both here in town.
Her husband has a job with the state and very good insurance, and milking that insurance was milked for every penny possible.
Both doctors knew and even called it, that both women would last 3 months after the diagnosis was confirmed.
My mother had bone cancer in her spine, and Dixie had some sort of lymphoma that ended up in her brain. She was just 47.
Now a buddy and customer of mine has been diagnosed with prostrate cancer. He is devastated, 62 in great shape still drives heavys and rides Harleys.
 
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sawyerloggingon said:
Was it way more expensive than a hospital? Do you think she got treatment there she wouldn't get at a hospital? Honest questions, I'm not arguing here.
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I dont know for sure. But it couldnt have been much more. She was not wealthy at the time and neither were her parents.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
My wife says it's where rich people go when they get cancer, I tend to agree.
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Sounds right to me. With wifey working in the hospital we have really good insurance thru them but I doubt it would cover all of that.
 
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