After much preparation, we opened our new radiation therapy department in September 2008. Many many elements and “players” had to come together to produce a new state of the art community cancer center. No detail was overlooked– the existing space had to be renovated to create a more “zen-like” work flow and feel; the front… Continue reading Who Wants to be First?
The great Greek physician and teacher Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC) described several kinds of cancer, referring to them with the Greek word "carcinos", meaning crab or crayfish. This name comes from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumor, with the "veins stretched out on all sides as the animal the crab has its feet, whence it derives its name."