| HEAL YOUR BODY, EASE YOUR MIND AT THE | | | | are spared. IMRT is responsible for dramatic |
| MYRTLE BEACH CANCER CARE RETREAT The | | | | improvements in the ability to treat tumors that |
| medical community has long touted the | | | | previously may be been untreatable due to their |
| importance of remaining positive and reducing | | | | size, shape or location. Using three-dimensional |
| stress while undergoing a cancer treatment | | | | imaging and complex computer treatment |
| program. Factors that make patients feel more | | | | planning, IMRT enables oncologists to shape the |
| positive include good relationships with their | | | | radiation beam, and modulate the radiation dose |
| specialists, the people around them being positive | | | | intensity within a given field. Actual treatment time |
| and supportive, and having a pleasant | | | | for IMRT is generally less than five minutes, after |
| environment. With this in mind, Carolina Regional | | | | which the patient is free to spend the rest of the |
| Cancer Center (CRCC), of Myrtle Beach, S.C., has | | | | day as he chooses. Rather than staying cooped |
| joined with Burroughs & Chapin Co., Inc. to | | | | up in a hospital or pacing around the house, |
| offer the Myrtle Beach Cancer Care Retreat. The | | | | patients with the retreat package have seemingly |
| retreat, which is tailored to each patient's individual | | | | limitless low-stress ways to enjoy the day ? golf, |
| needs, includes quality cancer care at CRCC, | | | | shopping, strolling on the beach, enjoying fresh |
| accommodations at Burroughs & Chapin's | | | | seafood, taking in live entertainment, and more! In |
| Myrtlewood Villas, and special rates at selected | | | | addition, the Myrtle Beach area is home to various |
| golf, entertainment and dining venues along the | | | | cancer support groups that welcome participation, |
| Grand Strand. "The Myrtle Beach Cancer Care | | | | should the patient wish to talk with others who |
| Retreat is the first of its kind and is unique in | | | | have undergone cancer treatment. Just two |
| what it provides to cancer patients," Dr. Bass, | | | | blocks away from CRCC, the spacious |
| CRCC clinical director, said. "Resorts often offer | | | | Myrtlewood Villas offer guests a serene setting |
| vacation packages that include physicals and spa | | | | along the golf courses of Myrtlewood Golf Club. |
| treatments. The Myrtle Beach Cancer Care | | | | The villas feature numerous amenities to provide |
| Retreat pioneers the concept of offering | | | | guests with the comforts of home and the luxury |
| radiotherapeutic treatment within a resort | | | | of Myrtlewood. "We hope that the retreat's |
| atmosphere." The Myrtle Beach Cancer Care | | | | participants will find their stay along the Grand |
| Retreat is the first along the East Coast to | | | | Strand as therapeutic as the treatments they |
| combine top-notch radiotherapeutic treatment | | | | undergo while they're here," Archie Lemon, golf |
| with a tranquil resort setting. This package is | | | | operations director of Burroughs & Chapin |
| perfect for people living outside of the Myrtle | | | | Golf Management, said. Accommodations are |
| Beach area who must undergo a radiation | | | | available on a monthly or two-week basis. Monthly |
| program and wish to do so in a safe, relaxing, and | | | | rates begin at $750 for a one-bedroom villa and |
| friendly environment. Everything a patient may | | | | $850 for two bedrooms. Two-week rates begin |
| need, from state-of-the-art medical treatment | | | | at $500 for a one-bedroom villa and $650 for two |
| and quality cancer care to dining, shopping, | | | | bedrooms. Rates may vary depending on the |
| entertainment, or just a relaxing walk on the | | | | time of year reservations are made. Family |
| beach, is mere minutes away. CRCC also has | | | | members who travel to be with a cancer patient |
| coordinated with a number of area physicians, | | | | during the term of treatment also can use the |
| physical therapists, nutritionists, and spas to meet | | | | retreat's benefits and accommodations rates. |
| additional needs patients may have while | | | | CRCC boasts three board-certified radiation |
| undergoing radiation treatment. Some of the | | | | oncologists ? Steven Bass, Todd Williams, and Paul |
| area's other top medical facilities are located close | | | | Goetowski ? in addition to medical physicists, |
| to CRCC, including the Grand Strand Regional | | | | dosimetrists, as well as treatment and planning |
| Medical Center, which has been named one of the | | | | and treatment delivery specialists. Dr. Bass is a |
| top 100 hospitals in the country for cardiovascular | | | | former chief resident at the Medical University of |
| care. CRCC is centrally located to provide easy | | | | South Carolina (MUSC) and has special interest in |
| access from almost anywhere along the Grand | | | | prostate and gastrointestinal tract cancers. Dr. |
| Strand. Myrtle Beach is a perfect winter get-away | | | | Williams has done extensive research in radiation |
| destination, as well as a wonderful place to | | | | therapy. He completed his residency in radiation |
| summer. Sunny days, mild nights, and miles of golf | | | | oncology at MUSC and remains an assistant |
| courses and pristine beaches make Myrtle Beach | | | | professor of radiation oncology at the school. He |
| an attractive location anytime. It is an easy drive | | | | is an invited reviewer for many peer-reviewed |
| from most East Coast cities and several airlines | | | | journals, a lecturer, and has published nine articles |
| serve the area as well. CRCC 's Cutting-Edge | | | | and five abstracts. He has special interest in lung, |
| Cancer Treatment Offers New Hope CRCC is a | | | | head, neck and esophageal cancers. Dr. Goetowski |
| health care facility that has been providing | | | | received his medical degree from the University |
| comprehensive radiotherapeutic services and | | | | of Nebraska Medical Center and completed his |
| treatments in Myrtle Beach for 24 years. CRCC is | | | | residency in Radiation Oncology at the University |
| one of the few health care facilities in South | | | | of Wisconsin in Madison. He takes a special |
| Carolina that currently provides Intensity | | | | interest in lung and breast cancer cases. CRCC's |
| Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), recognized | | | | 30 full-time staff members exceed the national |
| by radiation oncologists as the best technological | | | | guidelines for staff per task to be performed and |
| advancement in radiation therapy in the past 30 | | | | staff per number of patients. The size and quality |
| years. IMRT is a high-precision form of radiation | | | | of the staff ensures that treatments are carried |
| therapy that delivers high doses of radiation to | | | | out with the greatest precision, which is the |
| cancer cells, while minimizing the exposure of | | | | primary key to success in radiation therapy. The |
| nearby healthy tissue, thus offering hope in | | | | Myrtle Beach Cancer Care Retreat can ease |
| previously hopeless cases. Because IMRT | | | | patients' minds while also healing their bodies. More |
| treatments are delivered with extreme precision, | | | | information about CRCC and the Myrtle Beach |
| the exposure of healthy tissue is cut to a | | | | Cancer Care Retreat is available at or by calling |
| minimum and the side effects of the radiation are | | | | (843) 449-9415. |
| reduced; tumors are targeted and normal tissues | | | | |