Specialists diagnose and treat all forms of cancer. Comprehensive services including multidisciplinary consultation, delivery of outpatient chemotherapy, and stem cell transplantation are available to patients

Cancer Treatment Center Treatments and struggle against the disease

The Rockwood Cancer Treatment Center provides a comprehensive cancer care approach by a team of experts that understands cancer in all its forms. As a group practice, our center offers a complete range of options for cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up all in one location - including medical, surgical and radiation therapies Breast Cancer  Breast Cancer Support Group – This support group provides a supportive and educational atmosphere for women who have had or are having treatment. The group meets every Wednesday mornings, 9-10 a.m., in the 2nd floor conference room at the main clinic.  High Risk Breast Cancer Clinic – Genetic counseling, risk assessment and prevention consultation are available for women who are at high risk of developing breast cancer. A support group is available for women who may be at high risk for breast cancer or who are undergoing chemotherapy.  Nutrition Consult for Breast Cancer Patients – Nutritional consultations designed specifically for breast cancer patients trying to maintain weight during treatment or to lose weight following cancer treatment and includes education about diet and healthy food choices.  Pre-Consultation Clinic for Breast Cancer Patients – Expedited consultation, counseling and coaching of newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. Designed for the woman newly diagnosed with breast cancer (either before or after surgery), you will gain the knowledge and skills important for fully participating in your care.  Nutrition  Nutrition Consult for Cancer Patients – Our registered dietitian offers nutrition consults for cancer patients undergoing treatment.  Support 
Financial Counselor – Our financial counselor works with cancer patients and their families to help navigate the financial hurdles involved in cancer treatment.  Individuals and Family Counseling – Our oncology counselor works with patients and family providing support and access to community resources.  Cancer Patient Resource Center and Support Groups  Cancer Research Department  Our mission is to promote access to ground braking therapies in cancer treatment to residents of the Inland Northwest and to further the cause of finding a cure for cancer through support of important clinical and basic cancer research in this country.  We participate in international clinical trials through the National Cancer Institute. We are members of Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) and the Cancer Trials Support Unit (CTSU) of the National Cancer Institute. We also participate in industry studies, giving our patients access to other important phase II, III and IV studies.

Different Types of Cancer?

One of the primary differences between conventional and alternative medicine is in how cancer is defined. Conventional doctors see a malignant growth in the body and call that the cancer. Consequently, their treatments consist primarily of attacks against the tumor. Their preferred choices are surgery (cut out the tumor), radiation (burn the tumor), or chemotherapy (poison the tumor). If the tumor is removed or even reduced in this fashion, the doctor pronounces that the therapy is a success, and we often hear such reassuring statements as "We got it all." All-too-often, however, the malignancy returns either to the same location or spreads to another, and another, and yet another. At that point, we are told that the cancer has returned, and the attack against the new tumors is repeated as before.

By contrast, practitioners of alternative medicine do not consider the tumor to be the cancer, but merely the symptom of the cancer. They are more concerned with what caused the tumor to grow in the first place. They reason that it is more logical to fix the cause of the tumors than to attack the tumors themselves. If they can accomplish that, then the malignancies will stop growing, become harmless lumps, and eventually be re-absorbed and discarded by the body.

When a farmer sees black spots on the leaves of his corn crop, does he run around the corn field cutting the spots out of the leaves? Of course not, because he knows that the spots are caused by tiny organisms called blight. Even if he could succeed in cutting out all the spots, by the next day, they would be back on other parts of the leaves and there would be twice as many as the day before. The only way to get rid of the spots is to treat his entire crop to get rid of the organism that causes them. This is the approach of alternative medicine. Under microscopic examination, malignant growths usually appear to be quite different from each other, depending on their location and maturity. Since doctors of orthodox medicine think that these growths are cancer, they conclude that there are many different types of cancer. They give them distinctive names and often have a different approach for the treatment of each of them.

The doctor of alternative medicine, however, sees all malignancies as merely different manifestations of the same disease. What makes them appear different is that they take on some of the characteristics of the organs in which they grow. However, the more malignant the growth, the less they resemble their host organs and the more they resemble each other. The most malignant growths of all are practically indistinguishable from each other. They are, for all practical purposes, the same. (For a more complete understanding of this phenomenon, see World Without Cancer; The Story of Vitamin B₁₇, by G. Edward Griffin, referenced in the Sources of  Information section of this website.) The doctor of alternative medicine, therefore, views cancer as a general, systemic disease rather than a localized, organ-related disease. Consequently, the treatment is aimed primarily at strengthening the patient's natural defense mechanisms and assisting the whole body to overcome the malignancy. In some cases, especially those where a malignancy has become life-threatening due to its proximity to a vital organ – such as the heart or brain – most doctors of alternative medicine will prescribe surgery to remove the immediate threat. But they do not consider that to be treatment of the disease. It is merely a procedure to buy valuable time in which to apply the slower-acting therapies of re-building the natural defenses. However, since prevention and early detection is important, we have set up a page to let you know what some of the symptoms of cancer can be. We also have a page devoted to tests for detecting cancer. In addition, many have asked for information regarding specific types of cancer, so we are developing pages on different kinds of cancers as time permits. We have started putting together information on the following cancers: Oral Cancer  ,  Breast  Cancer  , Colon Cancer  The list of common cancers includes cancers that are diagnosed with the greatest frequency in the United States. Cancer incidence statistics from the American Cancer Society1 and other resources were used to create the list. To qualify as a common cancer, the estimated annual incidence for 2006 had to be 30,000 cases or more. The most common type of cancer on the list is non-melanoma skin cancer, with more than 1,000,000 new cases expected in the United States in 2006. Non-melanoma skin cancers represent about half of all cancers diagnosed in this country. The cancer on the list with the lowest incidence is thyroid cancer. The estimated number of new cases of thyroid cancer for 2006 is 30,180. Because colon and rectal cancers are often referred to as "colorectal cancers," these two cancer types were combined for the list. For 2006, the estimated number of new cases of colon cancer is 106,680, and the estimated number of new cases of rectal cancer is 41,930. These numbers are slightly larger than those estimated for 2005. Kidney cancers can be divided into two major groups, renal parenchyma cancers and renal pelvis cancers. Approximately 82 percent of kidney cancers develop in the renal parenchyma,2 and nearly all of these cancers are renal cell cancers. The estimated number of new cases of renal cell cancer for 2006 is 31,890. Leukemia as a cancer type includes acute lymphoblastic (or lymphoid) leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, chronic myelogenous (or myeloid) leukemia, and other forms of leukemia. It is estimated that more than 35,000 new cases of leukemia will be diagnosed in the United States in 2006, with acute myeloid leukemia being the most common type (approximately 12,000 new cases). The total number of new leukemia cases estimated for 2006 is slightly larger than the number estimated for 2005.

Cancer Type Estimated New Cases Estimated Deaths
Bladder 61,420 13,060
Breast (Female -- Male) 212,920 -- 1,720 40,970 -- 460
Colon and Rectal (Combined) 148,610 55,170
Endometrial 41,200 7,350
Kidney (Renal Cell) Cancer 31,890 10,530
Leukemia (All) 35,070 22,280
Lung (Including Bronchus) 174,470 162,460
Melanoma 62,190 7,910
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma 58,870 18,840
Pancreatic 33,730 32,300
Prostate 234,460 27,350
Skin (Non-melanoma) >1,000,000 Not Available
Thyroid 30,180 1,500

 

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Radiation therapy is the use of high level radiation to destroy cancer cells. Both tumor cells and healthy cells may be affected by this radiation. The radiation injures the cancer cells so they can no longer continue to divide or multiply. With each treatment, more of the cells die and the tumor shrinks. The dead cells are broken down, carried away by the blood and excreted by the body. Most of the healthy cells are able to recover from this injury. However, the damage to the healthy cells is the reason for the side effects of radiation therapy. Radiation has its greatest effect on tissues that divide rapidly.

The dose of radiation is determined by the size, extent, type and grade of tumor along with its response to radiation therapy. Complex calculations are done to determine the dose and timing of radiation in treatment planning. Often, the treatment is given over several different angles in order to deliver the maximum amount of radiation to the tumor and the minimum amount to normal tissues.

Some things to remember about radiation therapy:

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