Welcome to E C Rost Oncology LLC

If you are reading this, and you have cancer, you are looking for help. You have probably seen a doctor, or more than one. You need expertise, but something else is true: You are starting one of the most important relationships of your life.

The matter of trust between patient and physician should not be taken lightly. Studies show that trust enhances healing. Experience shows that without trust, a cancer patient risks real harm.

As a cancer patient, you need a physician who speaks in plain language, makes sense, welcomes questions, and admits to unknowns. You need a physician who encourages your research, is open to second opinions, and seeks out other specialists. You should not accept waiting for call backs or appointments.

Your physician must see you as a person, not a number. In a multi-speciality extended treatment care plan, you critically need a central expert contact: someone to supervise, solve problems and support you.

FACT: Modern medicine offers proven successful treatments for most cancers. The latest therapies offer revolutionary technology. They are not “experimental.” They are clinically established with proven outcomes.

FACT: Many leading edge treatments are not painful or debilitating. They can be planned to enable, not consume, your life. This is important, because quality of life matters at every moment.

FACT: All patients deserve the best care available. You need to know that options exist.

Does your doctor welcome QUESTIONS? That question may be the most impoortant question you you should ask. And the answer should be a resounding "Yes." In this uncertain, critical time in your life, a physician needs to encourage questions, answer openly and speak clearly.

ASK about all available treatments. Proven cancer therapies advance rapidly; most patients receive a combination of therapies; no one specialist does it all.

ASK which treatment options are best for you. For your cancer, your condition, your age and your life.

Ask: "How does the treatment work?  What is the expected outcome? Remember: living well is always the point.

ASK who will coordinate your care, who will be the supportive, problem solving center. Every cancer patient needs one. Then ask, "How soon can we start?" and listen for, "Right away." Delays may be necessary, but they are rarely beneficial.

First know that options exist: proven options, both conventional and revolutionary. Cancer research keeps yielding improved techniques. Your physicians must keep abreast of these changes. You can receive innovative treatment without being a subject in an experiment or protocol.
The long-standing treatments of radiation, surgery, and chemotherapy are now more varied, refined, and targeted. Technological revolutions have created IGRT, IMRT and DART. Hormonal and gene therapy are other strategies. Today's treatments can manage and cure cancer, without the mutilations and atrocities of the past.

Your physician should explain the options  for your cancer and lead a multidisciplinary team of specialists. Combined therapy is typical and effective but demands coordination.

Your treatment must be carefully planned for ease and for tolerance and results.