{"id":55838,"date":"2015-07-15T16:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T08:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55838"},"modified":"2015-07-15T16:37:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T08:37:18","slug":"asian-hospital-opens-multidisciplinary-facility-for-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/15\/asian-hospital-opens-multidisciplinary-facility-for-cancer-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Hospital opens multidisciplinary facility for cancer treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55839\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/we-innovate2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55839\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/we-innovate2.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo courtesy of the Asian Hospital and Medical Center)\" width=\"960\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/we-innovate2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/we-innovate2-300x97.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo courtesy of the Asian Hospital and Medical Center)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 With cancer becoming an alarming problem in the Philippines, the Asian Hospital and Medical Center will be launching a \u2018one-stop shop\u2019 for cancer therapy on July 23.<\/p>\n<p>Asian Hospital\u2019s Asian Cancer Institute (ACI), a multidisciplinary cancer facility, seeks to treat cancer with global expertise through modern services and scientific solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are putting a solution to this problem. In ACI, we are providing the expertise of Filipinos for the first time with the finest cancer specialists organized as a team. Beyond the expertise, we will provide the kind of healing that comforts,\u201d Asian Hospital CEO and President Andres Licaros said in a Philippine Daily Inquirer report.<\/p>\n<p>In ACI, patients will be able to discuss their conditions with a team of experts readily available, rather than being referred to one doctor after another.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from treatments, patients will also be comforted and encouraged by social and spiritual support groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the people behind the institution\u2026 are the main reason why we are taking pride in sharing this,\u201d Licaros said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, patients don\u2019t have to go anywhere else for cancer therapy because ACI has the most advanced technology in the Philippines\u2026 innovative and evidence-based,\u201d ACI Director Dr. Corazon Ngelangel said.\u00a0\u201cYou cannot fight cancer alone. It takes a team to win this battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ACI has four integrated treatment centers: the Emmanuel Center, which conducts screening diagnosis and surgical care; Conquer C Center, which has expert oncologists; Chrys Center 1, which provides oncology services; and Chrys Center 2, which gives integrative, supportive and palliative care services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 With cancer becoming an alarming problem in the Philippines, the Asian Hospital and Medical Center will be launching &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":55839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-55838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}