Why You Should Seek a Specialty Center for Mesothelioma Treatment?
Renowned mesothelioma specialist, Dr. David Sugarbaker on why it is critical to seek a mesothelioma specialty center.
[MUSIC PLAYING] Whether you come to the lung Institute at Baylor or whether you come to a number of different mesothelioma treatment centers around the country, go to a center. Why do I say that? Because patients need to be treated by a physician who has some experience treating patients with mesothelioma. There are a number of different physicians, excellent doctors, who just haven't seen much of the disease except to see that the patients don't do well. Now, you can't argue with the fact the patients don't do well, but they don't all not do well. Some patients do well. And what the physician needs to know is who to treat, who not to treat, what modality to use, what modality not to use, when to treat, when not to treat. So there's just a variety of decisions that need to be made by the physician treating the patient that I think only come from experience, and that experience can be gained in a center for the treatment of mesothelioma. [MUSIC PLAYING]
