Shaping The Future Of Healthcare

STROKE & BRAIN ANEURYSM CENTER OF LONG ISLAND AT GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL

Cancer Care

KIMON BEKELIS, MD STROKE & BRAIN ANEURYSM CENTER Director, Good Samaritan Hospital NEUROINTERVENTIONAL SERVICES Catholic Health Chair

FULL SPECTRUM OF CANCER CARE Fighting cancer involves physicians and family, science and support, treatment, and trust. That's why, at Catholic Health Cancer Institutes across Long Island, you'll receive the highest caliber of personalized cancer care designed to treat the whole person and not just the disease. We take a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach that addresses nutritional, social, emotional, and spiritual needs to complement a range of advanced medical options. And since you won't have to venture far from home, the people and places that keep your spirits high are always within reach. EXCLUSIVE CLINICAL TRIALS Catholic Health, through its partnership with the Roswell Park Care Network, is the only health system in the New York metropolitan area participating in a clinical trial to examine the impact of lung cancer treatment immunotherapy, CIMAvax-EGF. More than 5,000 lung cancer patients glob ally have been treated with this EGF-depleting immunotherapy. Several international studies have indicated improved overall survival and quality of life for patients receiving the treatment.

• The Stroke & Brain Aneurysm Center of Long Island at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, N. Y. is the only Comprehensive Stroke Center on the south shore of Long Island. • Good Samaritan Hospital is the only hospital on Long Island to be designated a Comprehensive Stroke Center by the Joint Commission and New York State Department of Health. • Dr. Bekelis along with the Good Samariatn team treat complex stroke cases by combining advanced imaging capabilities, including a 512-speed low-dose CT scanner, a biplane angiography system, and the experience and skill of specialized neuro-interventionalists, neuro-intensivists and intensive care trained nurses and support staff.

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