Pluta Cancer Center Featured in the June 11 Rochester Business Journal
The Rochester Business Journal did a special report for its June 11 issue on Health Care and Cancer Care in the Greater Rochester Region. Pluta Cancer Center's Dr. Marcia Krebs provided insight into the long-term effects of chemotherapy. Pluta Cancer Center President and CEO John Oberlies talked about recent research that confirms 99 percent of patients were "totally satisfied" with their experience at Pluta.
Health Checkup: Cancer Screenings
Since the fall of 2009, one cancer screening procedure after another has been rewritten or challenged.
Some have seen this as the hand of rationed medicine; others have seen this as the beginning
process of honesty about the benefits of screening.
For the Community
In one way or another, cancer touches the lives of everyone. That's why Pluta makes every effort to ease its impact not only on patients, but on families as well. Funds raised through community efforts support the Center’s ability to offer an extra level of care, through each phase, that is often overlooked in traditional cancer treatment. These services include:
- Medication, food, and transportation for patients with economic hardship
- Lunches for extended chemotherapy sessions
- Complementary nutrition counseling and massage therapy
People find inspiring ways to give—such as money raised from sporting events like the Red Wings Mother’s Day breast cancer awareness games, ladies’ hockey tournaments and high school basketball games, to proceeds from the Jefferson Estates neighborhood cookbook “A Matter of Taste,” to the brass fireman’s bell (hand-crafted by a Pluta patient) that is rung upon the completion of each person’s chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
With continued support, there are no boundaries to the exceptional care Pluta Cancer Center can provide.