Cancer Treatment Navigator provides the following services:

• Find the best possible treatment option for one cancer patient at a time, based on scientific and clinical criteria.
• Decipher difficult to understand medical diagnosis and pathology reports and thus help decrease feelings of shock and anxiety in people facing a new cancer diagnosis.
• Explain the basics of cancer disease-mechanisms, staging, and prognosis in easy to understand lay-term language.
• Save valuable time by researching and reviewing the plethora of treatment information, medical literature, available clinical trials and other online-information.
• Provide a personalized summary of this information that will help the patient in making an informed treatment decision.
• Help in selecting the best available Medical Oncologist and Cancer Center based on publication records, clinical, and research credentials.
• Accompany the patient to physician appointments to avoid feeling overwhelmed by the magnitude of information received.
• Provide insurance claim-assistance by establishing medical necessity for a promising treatment with evidence-based clinical data.
• As appropriate, work directly with drug companies, research facilities, physicians and regulators to enable compassionate drug use based on single-patient treatment protocols.
• Provide ongoing support to increase your productivity during initial testing, diagnosis and treatment period, giving hope, and help save you valuable time for things that matter most: Family & Friends.

Cancer Treatment Navigator does NOT provide the following services: 

• Practice medicine (including, but not limited to: ordering routine tests, making a diagnosis, prescribing medications and administering actual treatment).
• Interact with health insurance companies.
• Schedule physician appointments.

Dr. Stecher presents an overview of how we can apply principles behind immunotherapy to address cancer at the Ocular Melanoma Foundation.