HAMPTON, Va. — Cancer treatment isn’t just what happens in the exam room. It’s everything patients face while fighting to get better.
“We found that a lot of the patients that we treat, they come in for cancer treatment, but they have a lot of non-clinical situations, whether it’s they don’t know how they’re going to get to treatment every day, or lodging if they’re coming from Richmond or Charlottesville,” said Tiffany Velez Rodgers, marketing director of the Hampton University Proton Cancer Institute.
On April 15, the institute, also known as Hampton Proton, launched a new program to make sure patients don’t face these complex battles alone…