UM Cancer Center

We’ve found our experience with the Center rough. Mother was treated for Melanoma and many weeks after surgery complete and results analyzed they decided they wanted to go back in and treat her again. Can’t get a Dr. on the phone to tell us how it happened that they missed it in the surgery and the first two times they looked at results after. It’s nearly two months since the surgery and the wounds have healed over and now they want to go back in and again, just cannot get a Dr. on the phone to explain. Even the nurse who spoke to us at first doesn’t respond anymore and we are left talking to an assistant in the office who of course can’t answer any questions.
we were impressed when the process started because of course U of M is impressive but they seem to have no service model for handling patients/​families when their surgeries are not effective. Assume volume of operations has something to do with it but would seriously recommend checking out other options that handle less volume before committing to this institution.

This place is almost a second home to me right now. I am being treated for breast cancer. It is a really nice facility. The people there are very friendly and caring. The one caution is that you might have to wait a long time if you are having a infusion. The reason is that the pharmacy cannot take your order until you actually arrive. They are backed up a lot. So just plan to take some books magazines or your iPad and relax.

I would give them 10 stars if I could.
1994. I was diagnosed with the Big C. Lymphoma.
I was having trouble eating, and for me that’s not a good sign. I went to the UM hospital since I did live at the time in Ann Arbor, and after a few return trips they discovered that I had cancer. Plain as that.
I cannot say that everything went as planned, because the intern who diagnosed me came straight from the House School of Bedside Manners. I mean he didn’t have one. Three words as in «You have Cancer» then he walks out of the room. You can imagine the emotional rollercoaster I was on. I followed him and told him that if he didn’t tell me it was a joke he would be in the next bed with something broken, or something stuffed somewhere that would need surgery to remove. You can say a lot of things when you’re in pain and you’ve heard rotten news. I was eventually sedated and that was that.
The next morning was a little better. My oncologist had confirmed that indeed it was cancer and the good news was that they could fix that.80% chance of being cured. Not remission. Cured. I would take those odds in any casino.
Long story short, because I could write a book about this. The chemo was done on an outpatient basis, and it only took 3 hours of my time. I had a routine, where I would show up to the chemo clinic, get my poison, and then spend the rest of the afternoon trying vainly not to hurl, and I did a lot of hurling. Yes, I was bald as an 8 ball, but I was assured that in time it would all grow back which it has. In spades.
Now almost 17 years later, I am still walking my snarky ass around on the planet and writing bad reviews. Yes, the UM can fix that. All I can say is if anyone gives you an 80% chance of winning something, take it and run,
And so it goes.