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Welcome everyone to the Becker's Healthcare podcast series.

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I'm Ryan Mohammed, writer and moderator with Becker's

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Healthcare.

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I am thrilled to have with me today

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two special guests, Tom, vice president of of

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operations at OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute, and Teneal,

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director of operations at OSF Healthcare Care Cancer

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Institute. Tom Teneal, welcome to the podcast. We're

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very excited to have you join us today.

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To get us started, would you mind please

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introducing yourselves and telling us a bit about

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your background?

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Tom, do you mind starting with you?

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Sure. My name is Tom Cox. I'm the

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vice president of operations of the Cancer Institute.

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Institute. I started my career in radiology,

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actually, but over the years probably the last

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fifteen years, I've been involved in oncology

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and the development of the Cancer Institute, and

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I really kind of oversee the strategic direction

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of the Cancer Institute.

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Wonderful. Thank you so much for that. And

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then, Tenille?

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Hi, everyone. My name is Tenille Oderwald. I'm

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the director of operations here at the Cancer

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Institute. I've been with Saint Francis for just

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about twenty eight years. All in always working

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in oncology care,

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from a floor nurse to navigation

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and now into a leadership role,

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as the director of operations.

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Wonderful. Thank you both for giving us that

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background. So jumping into the conversation today, what

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innovative ways is OSF HealthCare

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providing world class cancer care to patients?

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Tom, Teneal,

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either one of you, please jump in.

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Sure. From an innovation perspective,

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there's quite a few things that we brought

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to the community that that we have not

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I'll start by talking about our brachytherapy

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suite. Brachytherapy is a type of therapy,

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where we're able to introduce

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needle applicators and put high dose radiation

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into the body, into the tumor area, and

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treat that. We have a brachytherapy

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suite that's got an integrated CT on rails,

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and we're able to really create a very

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efficient process and a good patient,

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experience. We also have artificial intelligence that reads

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all of our radiology reports and pulls out

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follow ups that need to be done and

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pulls out suspicious lesions so that we can

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make sure that,

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those lesions are addressed.

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We have a a a coordinator who who

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follows that. And and if there is a

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suspicious lesion, we'll get it into our

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clinic to be assessed and diagnosed right away.

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which is bringing patients from further away and

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allows us to treat some patients that we

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may have had to not to turn away

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and not be able to use radiation therapy

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Got it. Got it. Thank you so much

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for, answering that. Taneal, did you have anything,

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Sure. So, you know, really, the whole building

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is filled with innovative ways, that we are

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offering that world class cancer care to patients.

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sat down to really look at the workflows

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and designs of the bath of of the

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and pathways of the patients, it really sets

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us apart from others, I believe.

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You know, we really have focused on that

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and that ease for patients.

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diagnosis, there's many times they need a lot

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of additional imaging that's being completed.

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may need an MRI.

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before, these were always done on different days.

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to do is really develop a workflow for

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patients that when they come in, they can

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to have that timeliness to treatment,

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getting that,

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staging workup that's needed so quickly,

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that, those sleepless nights,

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that patients often endure,

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waiting for those results and a treatment plan

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to form. So really excited that we're able

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to offer that for most of our cancer

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approach is a really high priority for us

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here at the Cancer Institute.

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making sure that we have when patients come

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here, it's that one stop shop where they

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can meet with the radiation oncologist, their surgeon,

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medical oncologist, their nurse navigator,

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all in one day,

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to get that information that they need to

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really start that treatment plan and and a

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course of action.

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giving us that information. Sounds, obviously,

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as a great improvement.

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And recently, you've announced some, some new physician

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hires that are offering new expertise at the

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Cancer Institute. Can you tell us a little

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bit more about that?

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We are very proud of the physicians that

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we have, the depth of physicians,

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their expertise.

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we recently hired a surgical oncologist who's brought

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HIPEC technology to our community,

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and that's a surgical procedure that's used to

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treat advanced abdominal cancers that have spread to

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the lining of the abdomen. So the the

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surgeon will go in and remove those tumors,

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and that is followed by sixty to ninety

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that circulates through the abdominal cavity to make

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sure that we kill off any of those

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cancer cells that the the surgeon may not

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have seen when they were moving the tumors.

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very talented physicians. Those are those are hard

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to find. We're blessed to have those in

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cancer surgeries that we do compares to anyone

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in the state and really anyone in the

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nation. We do a lot of those surgeries.

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are are actually in the ninety ninth percentile

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proton therapy that has come to our community,

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proton therapy experience.

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proton therapy,

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depth, and we're building more depth of providers,

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looking towards the future, what's coming

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having a lot of big focus on prevention

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with cancer. We don't wanna just be there

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at a diagnosis. We wanna make sure that

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maybe helping prevent a cancer from occurring or

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finding it as early as possible. So we're

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putting a lot of measures

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and initiatives towards early detection and education

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surrounding what a patient's risk risk is.

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screens patients and assesses what their risks are.

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risk, putting them on a plan to,

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and teaching them more about nutrition and exercise

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Cancer Institute become a destination center for cancer

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care, do you think?

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the type of destination center that we really

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that we're gonna continue to grow in.

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center you know, if you're a destination center

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that somebody has to get on a plane

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and come see you, what you're essentially doing

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is you're gonna treat disease.

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They come there, you have great expertise, you

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treat the disease, they go back home. You're

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not really involved with survivorship,

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you're not really involved with cancer control in

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communities, but all communities in cancer control.

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How do we work together to help people

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understand what what what may cause cancer?

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cancer? How do we mitigate that risk?

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getting your screenings?

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make it easy to get in and get

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and we wanna work with the communities around

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can be done locally as possible. Sick people

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don't necessarily wanna get in a car. So

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if they're able to get treatment,

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locally, we wanna work with our OSF communities

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and non OSF communities to build up what

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in less complex cancer care. And then the

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tools we have at the Cancer Institute are

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if if, they do not have that particular

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tool in the community. So those complex cases

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surgeons. Our gynec,

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can have proton therapy, can utilize that brachytherapy

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suite. So we wanna walk the path

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before you even have cancer and to help

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you prevent it, to help you find it

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early, to help you get treatment, and then

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to get treatment. We we wanna be walking

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Just to piggyback onto that, you know, we

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we really have that expertise,

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and the skills from our treating providers from

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surgery to radiation oncology.

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They are just top notch.

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We are really bringing a new side of

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hope. And with the new clinical trials,

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we have the latest and greatest in the

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imaging devices, our brachysuite and proton therapy that

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Tom talked about are the best of their

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kind.

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We don't want patients to ever feel like

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they have to leave to get innovative new

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treatments.

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We want them close to home. We want

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them by their families. We want them with

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their friends and that support that they still

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need.

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We have just an amazing supportive staff from

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our nurse navigators, our dietitians,

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our counselors, our social workers,

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our skilled advanced,

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practice providers and our clinics. I mean, it's

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just amazing what we're here what we have

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here and offering to our community.

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Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. And I guess going a

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little bit further into that, in terms of

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community health, how does OSF Cancer Institute play

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a role into that?

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You know, I think that, we really are

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known for experts in the community,

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on cancer care.

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We do a lot in the community with

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our screening days, having patients come in and

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get all of their screenings done in one

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day, come get your mammogram, a low dose

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CT,

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have a skin cancer check,

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and have education.

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Know what your risk is.

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We have such education,

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with our our staff. You know, they're frequent

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visitors to our local TV stations just talking

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about screening and the importance of nutrition and

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exercise.

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But we have a teaching kitchen here at

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the Cancer Institute,

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and this is ran by our dietitians.

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They can sit down with the patient and

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give them all the clinical information that they

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need, But that teaching kitchen really is where

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it comes alive. It's a hands on approach

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of

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having them learn how to,

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make healthy recipes,

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for those that have had a diagnosis of

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cancer.

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What is the important things for them to

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eat and,

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to maintain their health during their treatments and

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post treatment as well too?

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that as well is is just the culture

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in the Cancer Institute, both in the building

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and the programs that kinda emanate from this

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building.

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You can feel it when you walk into

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that building that everybody there,

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is dedicated to being advocates for cancer patients.

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Anyone who works in the building has gone

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through training about what are the unique needs

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of cancer patients,

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what of the what services we've arrayed to

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help them, and Teneal's gone over quite a

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few of those. And we've asked them to

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feel empowered to ask.

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Is there anything you need? Is there anything

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we can do to help you? And if

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we see a need,

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we try to find that that support service

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that will fill that need. If somebody is

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having trouble with transportation, if they're having trouble

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with food insecurity, whatever it may be, we

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have the resources to help, and everybody feels

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very much empowered,

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to seek out that help and to align

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that support with the need.

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Yeah. Yeah. For sure. That that sounds amazing,

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and I just love all the help that

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that is offered.

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And, I guess, adding on to that, how

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do the teams at the Cancer Institute help

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patients, not just during the cancer treatment, like

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you all explained wonderfully, but even after, would

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explained wonderfully, but even after, would you think?

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So I'll let Teneal,

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talk about our our we have a robust

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survivorship program. I just wanna say very quickly

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once again,

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that we feel like we are gonna walk

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next to our community members through that whole

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cancer continuum.

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Not just treating and after treating,

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but helping you prevent cancer, helping you find

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it early, helping you understand your genetic risk.

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And then, yes, have all of those robust

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treatments,

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and then, Danilo will talk about, just a

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tremendous survivorship program that that she has built.

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So our support does not end after a

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cancer diagnosis.

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Patients are surviving and they're thriving after cancer,

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but it can really play a toll on

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a patient's body.

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We have put together a team of experts

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that really focus on life after cancer.

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Our start program, which is surviving, thriving, and

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recovering together,

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has nurse navigators,

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who are especially trained in life after cancer.

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We have counselors, we have dietitians,

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exercise specialists to really help patients recover after

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treatment.

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They're checking in with patients and assessing for

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physical, emotional, and financial needs,

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post treatment, and then getting them into those

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resources that we talked about earlier.

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After that last treatment occurs, a light switch

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doesn't

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go off and light doesn't go back to

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normal. So recovering from cancer can be really

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hard and difficult, and, we really wanna wrap

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our arms around these patients and be with

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them at every step of the way.

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Yes. Yes. Absolutely. Thank you so much for

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giving us those final thoughts. It's definitely been

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a very informative discussion. So I wanna thank

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both of you for coming on Becker's Healthcare,

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and speaking with me today. And I look

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forward to connecting with you both again soon.

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Thanks for having us. Thank you very much.