Scott had his first colonoscopy at the age of 52. What it revealed shook him to his core: a three-and-a-half-inch malignant tumor. During surgery to remove it, his medical team discovered more bad news.
The cancer had already spread to his liver and lymph nodes. 鈥淚 was Stage 4, and thinking I had a few days, maybe a couple of weeks, maybe a month to live,鈥� he says. 鈥淏ut my doctor looked me in the eye and said, 鈥楾his is not necessarily a death sentence.鈥� So far, he鈥檚 been right.鈥� Almost five years and many treatments later, he鈥檚 still here. And we like to think it鈥檚 because we鈥檙e here.
El Camino Hospital is redefining the role of a community hospital with an extraordinarily high level of expertise in cancer care, and doctors and nurses who battle as hard as our patients do. This is exceptional cancer care, delivered to Scott in the most personal way possible. 鈥淚 had cancer,鈥� he says, 鈥渂ut it didn鈥檛 have me. I don鈥檛 ever have to deal with it again, but if it comes, I鈥檓 ready to fight it.鈥�
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