At the age of 43, married with three children and at the pinnacle of his career as the police chief of a small Texas suburb, Eric K. says he was in “my prime,” when an ache in his lower back sent him to the doctor. He thought it was a kidney stone. Instead, it was squamous cell carcinoma of his left kidney, a rare cancer his oncologist told him he had seen only a few times before. Chemotherapy didn’t work. He was told he was out of options. Then he got a second opinion, hundreds of miles away from his San Antonio-area town. Six years later, Eric sits down with our host, Pat Basu, MD, MBA, President & CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (CTCA), to share his cancer journey and to offer some advice to cancer patients: Don’t settle for anything less than the patient experience you deserve.