How Do Choose a Doctor and Hospital to treat my Cancer?

1. Did You Know How To Select Cancer Hospital?

2. What we want? As we know cancer is not a easily treatable disease, so its important to take a better decision and select best cancer treatment centers. When you learn you have cancer then without ignoring get a best possible medical care and treatment. There are many best cancer clinics in the United States, but how do you know where to look? Many question are obtained in mind, Is the hospital really the best choice? Finally you may feel helpless and think anyone suggest about good cancer treatment hospital from a bad one? Now no need to become helpless, in this PPT we will introduce every fact of cancer and thought’s of cancer survivors and “shared their experience”. You can see in next slide which services and features are more required in cancer hospital, it can help to select cancer centers for better treatment.

3. When you choose Cancer Hospitals Remember 8 things • Ask around • Focus on the doctor first • Is the hospital nearby? • Does your insurance cover at that cancer treatment hospital? • Is this a specialty cancer center? • Treatment test are available or not? • Are clinical trials available at this cancer treatment hospital? • Does the hospital offer education or social support?

4. See some other points to choose Hospitals Quality cancer care: When you feel you have cancer, at that time you doesn’t have any thought about treatment so its tough decision to choose a cancer hospital. No one become hopeless, try their best to choose cancer clinics. Should be contact doctors who found first you have cancer and ask for best Oncologists. First meet 2 to 3 oncologists then prefer experienced. Choose a Hospital: Choose that hospital who have more experience to treat cancer. For example larger hospital have more experience to treat different types of cancer and have more services for cancer patient. If anyone have rare cancer then prefer larger hospital because small cancer centers are not have any experienced. National Cancer Institute: It is a part of US national institutes of Health. NCI is dedicated to better understanding, diagnosing, treating, and preventing cancer. NCI works with nearly 70 cancer centers in the United States. It recognizes 3 levels of cancer treatment centers.

5. Choosing a Doctor • You should to take time for choosing a doctor and try to select experienced & certified oncologist. Many patient are not have patience or scared and start treatment without searching more about their treatment. Oncologist is a cancer specialist but every types of cancer required different oncologist. Mainly 3 basic type of oncologist. • Medical oncologists • Surgical oncologists • Radiation oncologists • Oncologist depends on kind of treatment, Which kinds of oncologist you required you need to find before start a treatment. choose doctor Carefully because you need such as a good surgeon, radiologist, and/or medical oncologist for better treatment.

6. Decide what you want from Doctor • Choose a doctor who has experience treating your type of cancer. • You’ll need a doctor who is part of your health plan or accepts your health insurance. • Choose a doctor who practices (has privileges) at a hospital that you’re willing to use. • Choose a doctor youfeel comfortable with. Languages spoken, gender, ethnicity, and education may be important to you. • How know you are comfortable with doctors or not? • Did the doctor give you a chance to ask questions? • Did you feel the doctor was listening to you? • Did the doctor seem comfortable answering your questions? • Did the doctor talk to you in a way that you could understand? • Did you feel the doctor respected you?

7. Doctor Board Certified & Its Experience Doctors who are board certified have had extra training in special areas, such as medical oncology (cancer care), hematology (diseases of the blood), or gynecologic surgery (female reproductive system) and passed certification tests approved by doctors in their field. Finding out about the doctor’s experience, you should have also find out who the leading specialists in the field are. You can do research on the Internet, too. If your doctor has published research, you can look at those articles online. You might also contact the nearest cancer treatment centers and ask for doctors who are specialists in your type of cancer. Consider asking family, friends, nurses, and other doctors in your community.

8. Types of Cancer Treatment • Targeted Therapy • Hormone Therapy • Stem Cell Transplant • Precision Medicine • Surgery • Radiation Therapy • Chemotherapy • Immunotherapy Role of Oncologist • Explaining the cancer diagnosis and stage to the patient • Discussing all relevant treatment options and the oncologist’s recommendations. • Delivering high-quality, compassionate care. • Helping the patient manage cancer-related pain and other symptoms or treatment side effects. • Treated by a team of oncologists who specialize in different areas of oncology. This approach is helpful because cancer treatment frequently involves a combination of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.

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