I found out two months ago with a new radiologist/oncologist, that I NEVER EVER should have been radiated with cancer in my margin. Yet the Nevada Cancer Institute in 2009 radiated me for six weeks! The care here in very corrupt! Surgeon that is leaving cancer in all of her patients left a deep margin of cancer in me, along with many others! She works for a major cancer group. One of the doctors that worked at that group said that "They are doing something so unethical that I could no longer be a part of it." I filed a complaint against the surgeon to no avail because my investigator with the medical board here took a bribe to dismiss my complaint. They have literally murdered me. I want my cause of death to be listed as "breast cancer homicide."
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Radiated with cancer in my margin for six weeks! Medical care in Las Vegas is truly criminal.
I’m sorry that happened to you. I looked them up and it looks like they are no longer in business. Do you have a new oncology group that you like better at this point?
They went out of business in 2013. The problem is greed. The Director appointed himself a salary of $1.5M. I have no idea how much the doctors were paid. I found out that when they did this, they were on the verge of bankruptcy and closed down because they had to file. They ALL need to go to prison. They have murdered me for money, for profit!
That is@%(&%$#$ horrible!
It's murder for profit and they thought I would never know! I do know and it's terrifying. It's scary enough to have the cancer but to know that they deliberately did this to me for the money is infuriating. Also, keep in mind that the surgeon that left a deep margin of cancer in me deliberately, works for a major well-known cancer organization. A doctor that works there told an ex-friend that "They were doing something so unethical there that I could no longer be a part of it, so I left." They are all over the country and need to be fully investigated and arrested! Again, this is about greed and they make much more money off of us if we need expensive chemo/cancer drugs than if we recover. Health care for profit has got to stop!
What? How is this happening in America? These people should be put in jail...😡
I hate to burst your bubble, but America is very corrupt! As long as we have unregulated capitalism and health care for profit, this will continue! I filed a complaint against the surgeon, but my investigator took a bribe from her attorney and my complaint was dismissed. A woman that filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against him said that he and all of the senior investigators of the Nevada State Medical Board were taking bribes from the attorneys of the same bad doctors over and over again to dismiss complaints against them.
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Unbelievable! I’m so sorry this happened to you and others.
Thank you. This is ALL about greed and corruption!
Hi Need a Break. I'm here in Vegas as well and feel your pain. However, I'm lucky enough to be able to go to Chicago for serious things, like anything not a shot. I have family there. Can you travel to LA? I get scans and serious stuff in Chicago and my monthly shots here in Vegas.
I am thinking about going to UC-Irvine or MD Anderson in Houston. Sadly they are both affiliated with the same cancer center here that is accused of the corruption, a very well-known and big cancer group!
MD Anderson has consistently been ranked the number one cancer center in the world. They would not be rated number one if there were reports of corruption. I know many other people from different forum boards who go there and travel far to go there. The women I have met from other boards are 5+ years with stage iv and many of them are still working full-time which I find inspiring although for me I live in NY and I could not afford to travel back and forth to Houston.
I am sorry that you did wind up at a bad cancer center, but if you do research you will find that MD is the best to go to. The below was from 2019. So if you have the means, I would suggest trying that place.
"MD Anderson honored to rank as nation's best hospital for cancer care in annual survey. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is honored to be ranked No. 1 in cancer care in the U.S. News & World Report's annual “Best Hospitals” survey."
I live in NY and I would love to be able to go to Sloan Kettering in Manhattan. Unfortunately, the NY location only accept private insurance and no medicare/medicaid patients which is what I have.
Thank you. I am waiting to hear back from MD Anderson in LaJolla now. They said they would call me after a 10:30 meeting. It's 1:20 and I am still waiting. My biggest fear is the substantial brain damage that I have from the Exemestane. It is almost impossible to function with the visual dysfunction, dizziness and loss of balance. I can't even take any of the cancer meds because they can cause dizziness and warn about driving a motor vehicle. I have gone to 8-10 balance treatments with no improvement. Ironically, the doctor who ordered the Exemestane didn't have a clue that it couldeve cause the brain damage or didn't care. He's from Denver. I thought he would protect me. He brushed the brain damage off saying that Exemestane didn't work for me anyway. I couldn't believe it! Then why didn't he take me off of it?! Oh, that's right, he was probably getting a kickback!
Well yesterday I had my first (long) meeting with the pain specialist from the palliative team because I am now suffering severe lower back pain when walking. I was telling her my history and mentioned that my onco had never told me re Ibrance and how crappy I would feel on my week off.
She then asked me if I had read the pamphlet that goes with the medication I take. I said no. They are usually so long and in tiny print.
She then said (which made sense) that any doctor, especially with cancer and these new meds, cannot be expected to know every side effect and how it will affect each different patient. She said at some point it is up to the patient to read the pamphlets and let their onco know of any side effects they are experience. It's so true bc with Ibrance, I was so sick on my week off, each month, never got better. I mean bed ridden sick. Then I joined a forum board and was shocked to see that many women on it felt the same on their week off as their week on while other women felt better on their week off and then, women like me, who felt awful on their week off.
So basically, every woman can have a completely different reaction or side effect than someone else with the same condition and taking the same med. There are so many other factors involved such as age, health, any other meds being taken, etc.
Sister/warrior I am so sorry you are experiencing these health issues due to the love of money. I was misdiagnosed in 2007 with a visible lump in my breast. I was privy to some information that shined a light on the Dr, who was suppose to read my mammogram X-rays,. He gets paid by each one that passes his hands. So profit over patients health is now no surprise to me. What happened to the Hippocratic Oath???. 1 year later I had a 2nd metastatic lump under my arm. I was told by the Chemotherapy Dr, that with aggressive chemo , he could buy me some time, but I would not live to see 2009. I prepared for my entry hopefully to heaven, but Dr. God saw differently. I am God's testimony. I have NED, but like you I eat very healthy from God's green earth, exercise, and look like a specimen of health beyond my years. If I should have a recurrence I will have had many years of important milestones with my loved ones that the medical chemo Oncologist said I would not have.I still feel blessed that I overcame odds that were yessssssss miraculous, and I pray you too will have many more years to spend with your loved ones. Miracles are still in effect. God bless you XoXoXoXoXoXoX
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