Actually your insurance company is doing you a very big favor.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) are NOT CCCs, or comprehensive Cancer centers. That designation is reserved for real medical institutions that don't offer "naturopathic" medicine or spend amazing amounts of money on advertising to lure in desperate patients.
Here is the best description of Cancer Treatment Centers of America I have read from the Science Based Medicine site:
[quote]As a science-based physician and surgeon I really detest CTCA because it is expert at combining state-of-the-art science-based medicine with pseudoscience like naturopathy, chiropractic, and acupuncture, as well as scientifically tested modalities known not to be particularly helpful in the clinical management of cancer, such as chemotherapy resistance testing (which could be the topic of an entire post). Suffice it to say that the last of these was prominently featured in Suzanne Somers� cancer book last year. In any case, CTCA covers a continuum from the boringly �conventional� (traditional surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation) to the questionable (chemotherapy resistance testing), to pure pseudoscience (naturopathy, acupuncture, homeopathy) mixing them together to the point where it is impossible for the average consumer to know which is science-based and which is not.[/quote]
I don't how people like the CTCA folk sleep at night.
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