InHealth: Advanced and Compassionate Cancer Care

By Larry N. Silverman, MD

As with any cancer, preventative measures and routine screenings are imperative. In fact, some screenings will detect pre-cancerous changes years before they become cancer, enabling the proper treatment early enough to prevent it. For instance, Pap smears, mammograms, and colon cancer screenings are all tests that have significantly helped reduce death rates from certain cancers in the United States. While complete prevention is ultimately the goal, screenings can also help physicians detect cancer at an early stage in which treatment can stop it from metastasizing or becoming life-threatening.

Unfortunately, however, prevention is not always enough. Though eating a healthy diet, exercising, and maintaining a healthy weight can help lower your risk of getting cancer, there are cases in which a cancer diagnosis in unavoidable or even genetic. This is why it’s important to seek the best integrative care.

At 21st Century Oncology (21CO), our Dream Team of nearly 1,000 physicians truly functions as a family, amongst colleagues and with our patients. People that come to 21CO for treatment aren’t just part of a faceless list of patients – they are real people, with real names and families and stories, that we bond with and do everything in our power to help them live their best possible lives. It’s that idea of “fighting for our patients like an army and caring for them like a family” that guides our 21CO Dream Team every day.

As the nation’s largest integrated cancer care provider, we’ve brought radiation oncology treatments and other treatment services to patients in communities across the country, like Sarasota, for many years. With 130 treatment centers spread, 21CO is able to offer expert care coupled with the most advanced technology to patients close to home, in a comfortable setting.

21CO also offers state-of-the-art equipment and a host of the most evolved techniques, like 3D Conformal Radiotherapy, Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT) and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), and several others. This technology is helping us help others and is changing lives by offering personalized treatment options designed to meet the unique needs of each patient and their diagnosis.

Often, radiation therapy treatment sessions have to be facilitated multiple times per week over the course of several weeks, or months, depending on the severity of the diagnosis. This is why we believe the best care is the kind that enables patients to remain close to their support systems so they can heal comfortably. On top of that, the comfort and confidence of being close to home allows them to continue their normal daily routines. This is a very important component of cancer treatment that patients should also take into consideration.

When life doesn’t go as planned and you need help, you want to be surrounded by people who will keep trying and are willing to do whatever it takes. Giving hope and promising treatment options to patients close to home is nothing short of amazing and it’s what our team at 21CO does every day to be unstoppable in our crusade against cancer.

Larry N. Silverman, MD

21st Century Oncology

3210 Fruitville Road

Sarasota, FL 34237

(941) 364-8887

3663 Bee Ridge Road

Sarasota, FL 34233

(941) 924-8700