At the Harold Leever Regional Cancer Center, we are privileged to provide the best community cancer care available for each patient. Our blog serves as an extension of this care, offering community-based resources on a wide array of cancer-related healthcare topics.
When patients come to The Harold Leever Regional Cancer Center, they need more than just medical treatment – they need support, resources, and guidance to help them through a challenging journey. Here, the patient is at the center of everything we do. From prevention to treatment and recovery, we’re here for you every step of the way, providing the care and support you need to ease your cancer journey and ensure you receive the best care possible.
At The Harold Leever Regional Cancer Center, the radiation team is dedicated to providing the safest and most advanced radiation therapy to every patient. A significant part of that is developing a customized treatment plan.
As consumers, we are barraged with nutrition information, and it is often hard to determine what claims are legitimate. The most recent debate concerns something that has been around for a long time: ultra-processed or highly processed foods. It’s helpful to know what this means.
The President’s Cancer Panel recommends lung cancer screening as the single most effective way to reduce mortality from the disease and improve health equity and access.
The first genetic test for cancer became available in 1996. That test, the BRCA 1/2 test, looked for mutations in the two genes most commonly affected in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer — the breast cancer 1 (BRCA1) and breast cancer 2 (BRCA2) genes. Since then, many more cancer genes have been identified, and tests developed to look for mutations.
A new type of scan is helping doctors at The Harold Leever Regional Cancer Center detect very small, hard-to-find areas of prostate cancer, which could lead to better treatment outcomes.
“If you eat certain superfoods, you won’t get cancer (or heart disease or diabetes or high blood pressure or arthritis or Alzheimer’s.” The concept of superfoods was originally developed by the United Fruit Company, banana importers, around World War I as part of a marketing campaign touting the many benefits of eating bananas, including the fact that they came in their own germ-proof package.
When undergoing radiation treatments at The Harold Leever Regional Cancer Center, you will meet Leever’s Radiation Therapists, who administer the doses of radiation prescribed to patients.
