If the President Had Cancer..

If the President Wer Diagnosed With Cancer...

by Gary Schine

...Doctors and researchers would search for the latest information available on cancer treatments that could save him. Top experts would be summoned to the White House. The president would be treated with the best and latest available. He would be given the best opportunity to defeat that cancer, to survive, and to return to good health.

For the rest of us it's chancy. You may get the best available or you may not. While teams of physicians and researchers would search the literature to make sure a president or a senator got the best there is whether a clinical trial or another new treatment development. The same would not be done for you or for me. Most of us assume that our doctor is up-to-date on the latest cancer treatments. However, the facts are that this assumption is as naive as it is comfortable.

There is a very real chance that a potentially lifesaving treatment exists that your doctor does not know about. You simply don't know unless you have the latest information on your illness.

Computers: Pipeline to Better Treatment

Not too many years ago, searching for medical developments required a major medical library, volumes of heavy directories, and weeks of time.

Today it is possible to search thousands of medical journals in minutes, using online medical databases for new cancer treatments including clinical trials, experimental treatments, or other new treatments.

Through database searching, anyone can learn about the latest developments in treatment for any illness --and you may learn about it months before your doctor does. It is hardly an exaggeration to say your life may be saved by finding the latest information.

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Are we Merely Searching the Web

In a word, No!

If you enter the name of just about any illness in one of the World Wide Web search engines, you'll get many hits, perhaps several thousand. Unfortunately they will range from snake oil cures to legitimate scientific information. We use controlled databases that allow us to focus our search so we can concentrate on the most useful information. For example, we usually limit to:

• articles on treatment of the illness at hand (especially, but not exclusively clinical study information).
• articles from the past year (approximately)
• articles from reputable and verifiable sources. We are not interested in spectacular but unsubstantial claims or opinions without basis. We are interested in the best and latest that science has to offer.

Is the Second Best Treatment
Good Enough for You?

An Overview of FindCure.com

Schine On-Line Services, Inc., founded by cancer survivor Gary Schine, author of Cancer Cure, gathers information on any and all types of cancer or other illness directly for clients. Our researchers have extensive on-line experience, training from the National Library of Medicine, and other medical database training. We can search the databases for you and provide a report of the current developments in treatment and clinical trials of your particular illness.

"Can Information Cure Cancer?"

by Gary Schine

I was 38 years old when I learned I had a rare form of leukemia. The cancer would kill me, my oncologist warned, because there simply was no cure. He tried to persuade me to take comfort in the fact that it would probably progress slowly; but all I could think about were my two small kids who I'd be leaving behind, and my wife who would have to bring them up alone.

Today, over five years later, I am cancer free. I expect to stay that way, and the oncologists familiar with my condition expect the same. I owe my cure to my own efforts in researching and finding the latest information on treating my illness --a newly developed treatment that my doctor knew nothing about.

Accurate Diagnosis

FindCancerExperts: This is a physician-run, public service site that provides patients and family members with referrals for second opinions in cancer diagnosis. It has access to a network of over 60 nationally prominent pathologists with expertise in all types of cancer.
www.FindCancerExperts.com