General Practitioners

• Primary Care
  Problems not related to cancer or its treatment should be directed to your primary care physician or the physician covering for him or her.
• Emergency Care
  An explanation of all rules, regulations and services provided by TCS, the days and hours of service and provisions for possible emergency care, including telephone numbers.

Internists

• Colon Cancer
  If you or a loved one have been recently diagnosed with colon cancer, you are likely wondering what comes next. Between researching treatment options and figuring out the best plan of action to manage symptoms, receiving a cancer diagnosis can be incredibly distressing. To help simplify this experience and reduce some stress, here is an… Read More
• Prostate Cancer
• Cancer Care
  We are specialists in providing quality cancer care. Chances are we are also your neighbor. With our 15 locations serving the East Tennessee area, we are proud to be as convenient as we are comprehensive for our patients. Reference our office locations below and see just how close quality cancer care can be.
• Lung Cancer
  While there is evidence that genetic predisposition can contribute to the development of various cancers, there are several other known factors that can contribute specifically to lung cancer. These factors are largely environmental but can aggravate existing conditions that would contribute to lung cancer’s development. The following are a few of the known things that… Read More

Psychiatrists

• Mental Health
  If we have PHI about you regarding communicable diseases, disease testing, alcohol or substance abuse diagnosis and treatment, or psychotherapy and mental health records (super-confidential information under the law), we will not disclose it under the General or Healthcare Treatment, Payment and Operations Rules (see above) without your first signing and properly completing our Consent form (i.e. you specifically must initial the type of super-confidential information we are allowed to disclose). If you do not specifically authorize disclosure by initialing the super-confidential information, we will not disclose it unless authorized under the Special Rules (see above) (i.e. we are required by law to disclose it). If we disclose super-confidential information (either because you have initialed the consent form or the Special Rules authorizing us to do so), we will comply with state and federal law that requires us to warn the recipient in writing that re-disclosure is prohibited.

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  In November 2019, on the way to my son’s house for a weekend visit, I felt a discomfort under my right arm. The discomfort remained throughout the weekend. When we returned home, I found that there was a knot under my arm. I contacted my primary care physician for an appointment. He thought it was probably nothing to worry about, perhaps a cyst or infection of some sort. So he put me on antibiotics but scheduled an appointment for a mammogram, just to be certain. I had the mammogram in December 2019. Sure enough, there was something there, but they couldn’t tell what it was. They did an ultrasound and put me on another round of antibiotics, thinking there was an infection in my lymph nodes. They scheduled a biopsy to rule anything out. During the biopsy, the doctor had a difficult time getting any tissue and thought that to be odd. When my husband and I came to get the results, we were directed to the “Quiet Room”. I never want to go there again! The doctor told us what they found- Metastatic Melonoma. He said he wished it had been breast cancer, at least there would have been more hope for me. I felt insulted for all of those who are currently battling breast cancer and the struggle they are going thru. I was angry that he told me there was no hope. My husband immediately corrected him, “My God is bigger than cancer!”
• Chemotherapy
  More than half of all people diagnosed with cancer receive chemotherapy.  For millions of people who have cancers that respond well to chemotherapy, this approach helps treat their cancer effectively, enabling them to enjoy full, productive lives. Furthermore, many side effects once associated with chemotherapy are now easily prevented or controlled, allowing many people to work, travel, and participate in many of their other normal activities while receiving chemotherapy.
• Radiation Therapy
  Chemotherapy is any treatment involving the use of drugs to kill cancer cells. Cancer chemotherapy may consist of single drugs or combinations of drugs, and can be administered through a vein, injected into a body cavity, or delivered orally in the form of a pill. Chemotherapy is different from surgery or radiation therapy in that the cancer-fighting drugs circulate in the blood to parts of the body where the cancer may have spread and can kill or eliminate cancers cells at sites great distances from the original cancer. As a result, chemotherapy is considered a systemic treatment.

Dermatologists

• Skin Cancer
  The Office Staff at Tennessee Cancer Specialists juggled my schedule and worked hard to get me the appointments for scans and visits that I had no idea that I even needed. I had surgery in February 2020, removing several lymph nodes and the tumor. The tumor was sent for genetic testing. A port was surgically placed a couple weeks after that. I started on a treatment plan of Immunotherapy, which is the new ‘go-to’ for melanoma. I had my first treatment in March 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Up until that time, my husband held my hand and came to every appointment with me. But now, I had no choice but to go by myself. I was so scared when I walked into that Chemo-room for my first treatment. The nurse, Robin, asked me questions, and I just sat there in my mask with tears streaming down my cheeks. She grabbed my hand, knelt down beside me and looked me in the eyes and said, “You are not alone. We are going to go through this with you.” I can’t tell you how much comfort that brought to my heart. Even though I cried nearly every time I had to get treatment, she didn’t leave me. She was always there to greet me with a smile, as was the rest of the staff.
• Cyst