Evening Magazine ran a feature on the Laugh Club offered at Seattle Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center. The segment included video of the outside of the building, comments from patients and referred viewers to the show's Web site for a link to the Cancer Center's URL. On the Web site, the segment is featured as a "top video."
Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) breast cancer patient Michelle Mann (Crystal Lake, IL) and CTCA medical oncologist, Dr. Dennis Citrin discusses the importance of self examinations and mammograms to detect early signs of breast cancer. Dr. Citrin stresses that "Early detection results in higher cure rates."
Reporter Karen Long writes "Doctors recommend that women in their 20s perform monthly self-exams and report changes to their physicians. Women in their 20s and 30s should have clinical breast exams, and women older than 40 should have annual mammograms, according to Centegra and the McHenry County Department of Health."
Citrin explains that mammograms are effective because they can detect the cancer before noticeable lumps are formed. The very beginning stages of cancer, called stage 0, has a 100 percent cure rate says Dr. Citrin.
Kathy Vernier, (Davison, MI) found out she had breast cancer when doing a self examination. "I remember when I first felt the lump in May 2004. I asked myself, do I tell my husband right away? I wasn't sure if it was cancer or not. I decided to tell him. The next day I called my kids."
Reporter Monica DuFour writes that Vernier went in for a breast MRI and found out that she had stage II cancer.
"A friend told me about the Cancer Treatment Center of America in Zion, Ill. I found out from them the cancer I had was likely to go to the other breast in five years. The doctor told me if it was his wife he would recommend a double mastectomy," says Vernier.
Vernier describes CTCA as "work[ing] on the mind and the body. They were great. When you walk into the door there are hugs and kisses. I have cell phone numbers of my doctors. I have immediate contact with them."
Reporter Monica DuFour writes that Vernier was there for nine-and-a-half weeks. "If you could say going through cancer you can have a good time, I could say that," says Vernier.
"I think everybody gets tired of treatment. Sometimes the treatment is worse than the disease. But, you get through it. That's when you need those inspirational messages. When I felt it coming on I'd talk to my husband, Jim, who always can get a laugh out of me; or call my family. My family was a big help."
Vernier is thankful for the care CTCA provided her. "I believe with all my heart; I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for them."
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Jaspen continues to write "These are all ideas that have been part of Stephenson's 'Mother standard' for nearly 20 years, since he founded the Cancer Treatment Centers of America. He touts the large and small touches at his three existing hospitals, ranging from the latest $5 million imaging suite to physicians who return patient phone calls within the hour and the hospital's cafeteria servers decked out in cummerbunds and ties.
Stephenson's approach was born out of the negative experience he had when his mother suffered from bladder cancer for several years before her death in 1982. She was not able to try anything beyond traditional cancer treatment, he said.
Building on momentum from a push for patient choice and a growing openness to alternate therapies, Stephenson is leading a major expansion of the concept across the country with plans to open at least three more hospitals, putting them within 300 miles of most Americans, in the next five years."
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CTCA medical oncologist, Dr. Dennis Citrin, and CTCA patient Christiane Keilhofer, are featured in NBC's breast cancer awareness segment.
Keilhofer waited three years before receiving a mammogram. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she couldn't believe it. Now, she is a 2-year cancer survivor after having chemotherapy and surgery at Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
Citrin says that "Every woman after age 40 should get a mammogram. Studies have shown in women who have regular screening mammograms their risk of dying from breast cancer is cut in half."
Keilhofer now has her energy and life back. Although mammograms are not fun says Keilhofer, "it is certainly easier to know and deal with things early."
CTCA medical oncologist, Dr. Dennis Citrin, and CTCA patient Christiane Keilhofer, are featured in NBC's breast cancer awareness segment.
Keilhofer waited three years before receiving a mammogram. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she couldn't believe it. Now, she is a 2-year cancer survivor after having chemotherapy and surgery at Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
Citrin says that "Every woman after age 40 should get a mammogram. Studies have shown in women who have regular screening mammograms their risk of dying from breast cancer is cut in half."
Keilhofer now has her energy and life back. Although mammograms are not fun says Keilhofer, "it is certainly easier to know and deal with things early."
CTCA medical oncologist, Dr. Dennis Citrin, and CTCA patient Christiane Keilhofer, are featured in NBC's breast cancer awareness segment.
Keilhofer waited three years before receiving a mammogram. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she couldn't believe it. Now, she is a 2-year cancer survivor after having chemotherapy and surgery at Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
Citrin says that "Every woman after age 40 should get a mammogram. Studies have shown in women who have regular screening mammograms their risk of dying from breast cancer is cut in half."
Keilhofer now has her energy and life back. Although mammograms are not fun says Keilhofer, "it is certainly easier to know and deal with things early."
CTCA medical oncologist, Dr. Dennis Citrin, and CTCA patient Christiane Keilhofer, are featured in NBC's breast cancer awareness segment.
Keilhofer waited three years before receiving a mammogram. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she couldn't believe it. Now, she is a 2-year cancer survivor after having chemotherapy and surgery at Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
Citrin says that "Every woman after age 40 should get a mammogram. Studies have shown in women who have regular screening mammograms their risk of dying from breast cancer is cut in half."
Keilhofer now has her energy and life back. Although mammograms are not fun says Keilhofer, "it is certainly easier to know and deal with things early."
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According to the National Cancer Institute, 20% to 40% of cancer patients die from causes related to malnutrition, not from the cancer itself. CTCA chef Kenny Wagnor suggests loading your diet with anti-oxidants, which are found in bright colored foods such as berries. Chef Wagnor prepares a blackberry strudel packed with tasty berries and pecans--a great combination of cancer fighting foods!
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"Our health is clearly three-dimensional involving our thoughts, our
emotions and our physical bodies. We simply cannot expect profound
results if we limit our attention to the physical aspect alone.
If Medical Science is willing to acknowledge the negative connection
between anger and high blood pressure, why not examine the positive
relationship known to exist between laughter and healing?"
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