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2009 Recap
How quickly this year has passed! It is hard for us to believe that this is the last blog post for our first year on the blogging circuit! We have enjoyed bringing this new venue of information and communication to you – our cancer center patients and interested community – and we hope that you have found it to be valuable too!.
It has been quite a busy and productive year for us at Holy Cross and the Bienes Cancer Center. We have continued to grow – both in terms of patient volume and size of professional staff. During 2009 we added new subspecialties and sub-specialists to our team including colorectal surgeons – Drs. Lescher, Basu and Schochet and added a new Hematologist/Oncologist Dr. David Drew who joined us in November from the National Cancer Institute. We added new technologies in our radiation oncology department including a new ultrasound based tumor localization system and a brand new linear accelerator with IGRT (Image-guided radiation therapy) and stereotactic radiosurgery capabilities. There is no cancer center in South Florida that has more technology than we do now! And we have maintained our high touch service along with the spirituality and faith based approach that we do with everything at Holy Cross. We continued to develop our disease specific focus for our physicians so that we have dedicated teams of physicians now who focus their practices on breast cancer, prostate cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, lung cancers and colorectal cancers. This specialization is allowing us to be the true leaders in our field that patients deserve and need.
Finally we have significantly expanded our clinical research program – opening the first community hospital based phase 1 clinical trials for cancer in South Florida. We are truly excited to be able to offer these new options to patients who have exhausted all other treatments.
Thank you for participating with us on our journey. 2010 promises to be even more exciting!
A Welcome To Radiation Oncology
Welcome to the Michael and Dianne Bienes Cancer Center Blog. We are all pleased to be able to offer this new service to our community and to you.
My name is Dr. Lav Goyal and I am one of the two Radiation Oncologists at the Bienes Cancer Center. I am a Board Certified Radiation Oncologist. I joined Holy Cross last year having previously worked at the University of North Carolina as an assistant professor for five years. I completed medical school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and then completed my residency in Radiation Oncology at The Cleveland Clinic. During my last year, I served as the chief resident. I have been very active in clinical research programs at all the organizations where I have worked.
My main goal in this blog is to offer you more information about the field of radiation oncology. A lot is happening in this field and the results are tremendously exciting. My partner Dr. Irina Grosman will also be sharing her insights with us in this blog periodically. We currently have two linear accelerators both capable of performing Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT, which I will explain in detail in a future blog) and we are building a third accelerator that will allow us to offer patients Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) and Stereotactic Radiosurgery. We also offer high and low dose brachytherapy for treatment of various types of cancers.
I look forward to hearing from you and to offering you my thoughts on a monthly basis.
About the Center
The Michael & Dianne Bienes Comprehensive Cancer Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida is the Cancer Care Leader in Broward County. Dedicated to providing patients with precise diagnosis, the latest and most advanced treatment and aftercare options, we offer a multidisciplinary approach to care, a compassionate and spiritual healing environment, and an affiliation with the National Cancer Institute. We are also working together with Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center to provide South Florida residents with rapid access to specialized cancer care and genetics counseling.
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