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Originally Posted by Pturner

I still don't understand what Moffitt will be providing at TV? Moffitt's website links to two news articles about the Leesburg and TV facilities. One printed in the Tampa Bay Business Journal and one printed in dailycommercial.com.

From the linked articles, I don't necessarily get the impression that Moffitt doctors will practice at the TV facility. Here is a paragraph from Tampa Bay article:

"The partnership also includes a team of multidisciplinary Moffitt faculty members consulting with the hospitals’ physicians and surgeons on patient cases, educational seminars and professional exchanges. Patients under treatment at The Villages and Leesburg Regional hospitals have access through their physicians to clinical trials offered through Moffitt, as well as relaying of critical patient care information through telecommunications and electronic medical records development."
Read more: Moffitt Cancer Center adding facilities | Tampa Bay Business Journal

Here is a paragraph from the Daily Commercial article:

"A team of multidisciplinary faculty members from Moffitt will consult with local physicians and surgeons on patient cases, and patients will have access to clinical trials offered through Moffitt."
Read more: Cancer centers coming to Leesburg, The Villages

The article in The Villages Daily Sun says:

"Moffitt will staff the center with its radiation oncologists, dosimitrists, radiation therapists, physicists and physicians."

So, are Moffitt doctors just consulting with local doctors or will Moffitt multidisciplinary doctors treat patients at The Villages? Does it make any difference to those who are enthusiastic about the new facility?

The huge team of oncologists that treated both Helene and me here in Cincinnati do it this way. A group of doctors typically have a day a week at each of their centers. We see our oncologist on Monday in Blue Ash which is closest to us. The nurses and techs stay at each place all six days but the M.D.s rotate. The radiation oncologists stay in one place all of the time. (There are several radiation oncology sites around the city.)

I also want to mention that surgeons are not part of this group. The surgeons are picked by your oncologist, although some surgeons specialize in areas like breast surgery exclusively.

FYI.

And while on the subject for anyone recently diagnosed, there are 13 of my relatives that have had breast cancer. Only one has died from it.

Cancer can be so scary, but many, many of us have survived it.