 I firmly believe that every patient who is diagnosed with malignancy can expect the best of care at NYU Winthrop Hospital. The Center for Cancer Care at NYU Winthrop takes pride in providing patients with a better kind of cancer care. We have assembled a team of highly skilled physicians offering sophisticated diagnostic testing and comprehensive therapeutic options for the treatment of cancer in virtually every disease area. These include state-of-the-art minimally invasive techniques such as three-dimensional CT scanning, pinpoint cyberknife stereotactic radiation therapy, and robot assisted surgery. Through the latest in clinical trials, our patients have access to innovative therapies that may become the future standard of care. We have pioneered the use of patient navigators who assist patients through their cancer journey with clinical expertise and sensitivity. But most importantly, the patients' needs are always at the center of our attention. We understand that the key to successful outcome is patient involvement and we strive to engage our patients and their caretakers in all aspects of their care. We have a comprehensive center where we can take care of the patients from diagnosis to survivorship. From the patient's perspective, they really can expect to have all of their needs met. Here at NYU Winthrop, we have the benefit of having a multi-disciplinary approach to cancer treatment. What that means is that you have all the different specialties that are involved in patient care getting together and discussing the case. We bring together groups of specialists from multiple disciplines. So that the left hand always knows what the right hand is doing. It's really seamless care with our surgeons, our medical oncologists, our GYN oncologists. Medical oncology, radiation oncology, radiology, pathology, surgery, and gastroenterology. We discuss each new patient and how to best take care of those patients. Patients are not a number here. Each patient has an individual cancer plan that is developed based on their age, their comorbidities, the type of tumor they have, the location of the tumor. We look at our patients as family and neighbors and we take that responsibility really seriously. Both men and women want the best quality of life with the least amount of side effects. When a patient is diagnosed with malignancy, it is a life-altering experience for them and their families and we do our very best to minimize that impact. We have a navigation system with experienced nurses who help overcome any obstacle that the patient may be facing. The nurse navigator will follow all the patient through the cancer journey all the way up until and through survivorship. They are knowledgeable in transportation issues, financial issues. We have a wide variety of services. We have dieticians. We have social work support. We have emotional health. Just about any barrier that the patient would come across through their cancer journey. We are a tertiary care academic medical center. We have attracted world-class surgeons. We are most excited about the advances in immunotherapy, radiation oncology, and of course the role of genetics in deciding which therapy is best for the patient. We are able to offer a number of modalities that are cutting edge. We've been a leader in the nation on CyberKnife. CyberKnife is a five-day treatment for prostate cancer, which is the majority of what we treat here. We also treat brain, spine, and lung for a patient perspective to have a five-day treatment as opposed to a nine-week treatment. It's really a game changer for the patients. Get them back to their families. Get them back to work with minimal side effects. We are a full-service conventional radiation oncology department. We do IMRT. We do VMAT therapy. We do brachytherapy. As an interventional radiologist here at NYU Winthrop, I do a variety of image-guided procedures. These procedures are minimally invasive. Imaging guidance would include ultrasound, CAT scan guidance, and fluoroscopy, which is real-time x-ray. One of the advantages to image-guided minimally invasive procedures is that patients often go home the same day. So we can have appropriately aggressive interventions with excellent outcomes with very low side effect profile, getting back to normal quality life as soon as possible. One advantage for our patients with cancer is that our imaging services are tailored to their specific needs. We pride ourselves in providing advanced imaging services using the latest state-of-the-art technology, which includes a PET CT scanner, CT scanner, and MRI. We have multiple rooms, like the one we are in today, that have biplane state-of-the-art angiography. We have multiple CAT scan machines that will allow us to get excellent image acquisition during ablation procedures and state-of-the-art ultrasound as well. But besides the equipment, it's also the people behind that equipment. We have sub-specialists in different areas that have really focal areas of expertise, such as abdominal imaging, breast imaging. We also do a very high volume and a wide variety of complex interventional oncology procedures, again specifically embolization and ablation procedures. We've done many hundreds of those procedures over the course of the past few years with a volume that is as high if not higher than any other hospital in the region. The NYU Winter Department of Radiation Oncology doesn't rest on its laurel, so even though we are the number one department in the country, we are constantly trying to innovate. New treatments, new protocols, new doctors are bringing new experience to the department, so we're not going to be complacent with our reputation or status being number one. We're going to continue to work hard to maintain that. I think that if you were going to have cancer care, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better radiation oncology department anywhere on the planet, and we're really proud of that. Here at NYU Winthrop, we have a comprehensive robotic program. We're fortunate enough to have multiple XI robots of Da Vinci, and it's the latest iteration of the robot. It has a stapling technique and a stapling technology that allows me to do everything port-based and under my control. We not only have thoracic surgery being performed here, but multiple different specialties are using the robot, a GYN, urology, general surgery, colorectal, and we're also a robotic epi-center, which means that there's surgeons coming from all over the world to come watch us operate how we run the service and to see how our operating room functions. For thoracic surgery here at NYU Winthrop, we're a team. Everybody works together in order to get the patients the proper care and the best care possible. The outcomes are driven by the technology, not by profits. We do what's right for the patients and the patients benefit in that account. We are actually now able to take patients that never had an opportunity to even think about uttering the word cure and offer them the potential for cure with immunotherapy drugs. Through the clinical trials mechanism, we have reached out to our patients and given them the opportunity to gain access to drugs to give them back their longevity. We've started an outstanding program called Genomics where we can tell you, using personalized medicine, whether or not your particular cancer is on the aggressive side and requires cyber knife, robotic surgery, perhaps cryotherapy. Here at the NYU Winthrop Cancer Center for Kids, we offer the very latest state-of-the-art treatment, but it's administered in a very, very special way. We pride ourselves on being a very, very child-friendly place. We have all different kinds of programs here that includes child life activities, music therapy, which helps relieve a lot of tension and pressure that children might have. Children actually look forward to coming here because they find it's not threatening in any way. We offer state-of-the-art treatment that includes things like the newer targeted drugs, which are specifically designed to attack a cancer cell, sparing normal cells. We participate in national trials, which is always trying to advance the state of the arts. Also vitally important to us in surgical oncology is the quality of our outcomes. We participate in the American College of Surgeons National Quality Improvement Program, and NYU Winthrop continues to be one of the top performing hospitals in the nation. We not only think we're good, we also believe others think that we're good. The program itself has the longest running record of being certified by Commission on Cancer, which is a significant distinction. We've been certified for more than 50 years. We have certification by other national bodies, including NAPBC, which is the Center of Excellence for Breast Cancer. We also have a certification by American Society of Clinical Oncologists for Quality of Care here, and we participate in something called National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, which is a way of monitoring surgical outcomes. And we're in the top 10% in that group, which is a very distinguished group nationally. Our Medical Oncology Practice is QUOPI certified, which stands for Quality Oncology Practice Initiative. We have our magnet designation for our amazing oncology nursing. Our physicians and staff are not only involved in clinical activities, research, and administration, but they're also teachers. We participate in every tumor board. We lecture, we teach, we host courses. In order to maintain our skills and also to develop new ones, we have a brand new simulation center. Here at our State of the Arts Simulation Center, we are able to provide our oncology staff with the latest educational programs to provide them with the knowledge they need to care for this patient population. We make sure that all of our staff attend the latest oncology education days with their trains in the highest safety standards regarding the administration of chemotherapy and biotherapy. We work collaboratively as teams with the RN Nursing staff from the Inpatient Medical Oncology Unit and our Outpatient Infusion Center, we're collaboratively with our oncology physician staff. We all believe that that's an important part of our mission because training the future generation of healthcare workers is critical to providing the best of care to men and women on Long Island. We have grown from a small but always highly qualified group of clinicians to one now that has become a true comprehensive cancer program affording all the advantages of modern medicine in the intimacy of a user-friendly environment. I've been here for 21 years. I would never think of leaving this place. It's really the highest level medicine with the highest level of people. NYU Winthrop's physicians and staff deliver expert care with the utmost personal attention and compassion. These features set us apart in the region and offer proof that we do provide a better kind of cancer care.