Alex Rolland, Molecular Oncology Scientist and Precision Cancer Medicine
Specialist
Director of Scientific Research, CTOAM co-founder
Our founder and cancer research expert, Alex Rolland, has 30+ years experience as a highly respected research scientist in cancer and oncogenomics. He has spent time both on the frontlines with patients in hospitals and in labs researching the newest diagnostic and treatment advancements.
Alex has developed highly successful treatment plans for oncologists and patients at leading cancer centres around the world, including the Mayo Clinic (USA), Johns Hopkins (USA), MD Anderson (USA), BC Cancer Agency (BC, Canada), among many others. He is recognized among the best in the industry as an expert and thought leader.
You can learn more about Alex here.
Michelle Morand, Precision Cancer Medicine Educator and Advocate
Cancer
Care Advocacy Specialist and Counsellor, CTOAM co-founder
Michelle Morand (MA, RCC) has a successful 35+ year career in mental health education and program development. She's helped hundreds of clients overcome hardships and live fulfilling lives. Deeply passionate about helping others, Michelle is an expert in Cancer Advocacy and works with cancer patients across Canada and worldwide to help them access more timely care and more beneficial treatments.
Her team is skilled at coordinating access to the most effective treatments for your unique cancer genetics, with the support of your current oncologist and medical system – and without you having to travel for care. There is so much more that can be done than standard care can provide.
Even for those who have been told there are no more options, or that there is nothing other than standard chemo, radiation and surgery, or watching and waiting...Michelle and her team do whatever it takes to ensure that you get the best of all worlds: the most timely and beneficial treatment that medical science can provide with support of your current treatment team and health care system.
Get the most accurate diagnosis and most beneficial treatment for your cancer's molecular features.
On your call, you will also get a free copy of our 20 Questions to Ask Your Oncologist – So You Get Better Cancer Treatment – an essential guide that we usually only share with clients.
Cancer Care Success Roadmap
We’ll come up with an evidence-based plan of action to dramatically increase your chances of beating cancer
while giving you the highest quality of life possible. You will be getting a customized breakdown of our
unique
research and advocacy program (specifically tailored to you and your situation).
Leading-Edge Diagnosis and Analysis
You'll
learn how to access the most advanced
diagnostic
testing for the most precise, detailed, and accurate diagnosis.
(Did you know that 1 out of 5 cancer diagnoses
are wrong? And 5 in 5 cancer diagnoses are not nearly as accurate as they could – and should – be...by a
long shot!)
Uncovering the potential of genetic testing and advanced imaging is guaranteed to provide you with significantly more treatment options. 99% of the time, we’ll find two to three new treatment options – all FDA-approved, ESMO-approved, and/or Health Canada-approved – for you that are proven to be more effective than your current treatment.
And otherwise, we’ll absolutely find you new FDA-approved, ESMO-approved, and/or Health Canada-approved, off-label options and innovative treatment combinations that reduce treatment side-effects and improve efficacy...which lets you maintain a high quality life, rather than suffering from unnecessary side effects and stress. Everything we do is done in consultation with your oncologist, so they can provide you with even better care.
It’s not uncommon for our clients to go from stage IV to cancer free – without chemo – in less than one year. Sometimes it can take just a few months for a patient to enter long-term remission when they get on the right treatment.
The right treatment at the right time makes all the difference...
Complete Cancer Treatment Options Review
We’ll
show you how we use our advanced
diagnostic tools
and global network to uncover the newest FDA-approved, ESMO-approved, and/or Health Canada-approved
treatment options that will work for you, and how we
help you and your doctor to access them as fast as possible.
You will discover the most advanced targeted therapies and leading-edge surgery options that are proven to work for your specific cancer's molecular features. We’ll then outline a step-by-step roadmap of how we will find these treatment options for you and how fast we can do it if you and your oncologist say yes.
For example, in less than one month from time of your first consult call, you could be starting on the treatment that will give you your entire life back in less than one year. This has been the story of many of our patients over the past 15+ years that we've been doing this pioneering work.
Cancer Treatment Monitoring Program
You will
get the most advanced cancer treatment
monitoring tools to ensure that your treatment is working as well as possible – and, if at any point it
stops working, we will have all the data necessary to know immediately which treatment(s) to put you on
next.
All of our treatment recommendations will be targeted to your cancer's unique molecular features, ensuring that you get to keep as much of your current life as possible – this means you will experience as few side effects as possible, be able to maintain the quality of the relationships in your life, and you can probably even keep working through it all (if you choose).
This will put your body, mind, and spirit in a position of strength and health while the science-backed treatments go to work on eradicating the cancer in your body. You and your oncologist will be kept up-to-date on everything, every step of the way. We work very closely with our patients' oncologists and treatment teams, and always ensure that everyone is on the same page...so that your treatment success is put first.
The Very Best Ongoing, Follow-up Support
We’ll
use our expertise and supportive team
to follow
up with you, whether you decide to work with us or
not. You’ll have us in your corner for any further questions you have, and to check in along the way.
(Don't wait to ensure you're getting the best possible treatment!)
On your call, you will also get a free copy of our 20 Questions to Ask Your Oncologist – So You Get Better Cancer Treatment ASAP – an essential guide that we usually only share with clients.
We’ll use our precision oncology expertise and global network of specialists to give you an advanced analysis of your current cancer care plan and identify gaps that could be costing your years, or even your life.
(Don't wait to ensure you're getting the best possible treatment!)
On your call, you will also get a free copy of our 20 Questions to Ask Your Oncologist – So You Get Better Cancer Treatment ASAP – an essential guide that we usually only share with clients.
Hear from some of our patients...
"This is a fantastic place to get real information about your cancer. I want to thank you so much. It is so hard to get answers from anyone these days. These people care and give you great advice to help you with your decisions and what’s new. I recommend you talk to them and get the real facts about what’s up!"
- Sharon McConnell
"Thanks to this CTOAM, I'm feeling better than I have in quite some time. I am a seven year metastatic breast cancer survivor and I have access to the drugs that help stall my cancer...
I‘ve just trusted in the medical system in this country forever and I was really surprised to find that by going to a private oncologist I could get the drugs I actually need versus the drugs they [BCCA] could give me. CTOAM was able to help me get these drugs, so I’m not paying for them. I’ve been on the targeted]drugs now for a few months and I feel better than I’ve felt in a couple of years. I feel really good – like, shockingly good. And I’m not having any side effects from them at all. I feel fabulous. Although I do often have tired days still."
- Lisa Johnson, breast cancer survivor
"Alex knows more about cancer than anyone I’ve met including doctors. He actually thinks and personalizes treatment for his clients. Highly recommend CTOAM."
- Michael Choe
"We had great success with CTOAM with my husband’s melanoma. Greg followed CTOAM’s recommendations and is now over 5 years cancer free."
– Mary Wilfert
"My father is doing very well. He just had his appointment with his oncologist who gave him a glowing report. Best possible outcome. I am sure that the immunotherapy was instrumental in his cancer being undetectable a year after diagnosis…especially without surgery. We are confident that this good report will continue into the future."
"We are very grateful for your help and do believe more people should have access to this treatment. We hope this will make the treatment more accessible, too. Once again, thank you so much."
– Karen Miller
"Alex was just so positive – we enjoyed our phone calls with him because we talked to him, we were always like, 'okay, we can do this!' There was always hope after we talked to him. There was always something we could be doing more of. You know, drink your green tea, take all your nutraceuticals…there was just always, always something positive."
– Annette (melanoma survivor, now cancer free)
"I was impressed with the research and knowledge Alex has. He’s explained everything along the way; I’ve come to trust him implicitly. He always gives me hope, which is a huge benefit."
– Damian, colon cancer survivor
"I’m happy I chose to go with CTOAM because it’s given me more time to spend with my family. Alex has been very encouraging. If I could go back in time, I would have started with CTOAM faster. I would tell anyone with cancer to call Alex right away."
– Betty (colon cancer)
"All I wanted to do was to be able to say to my family that I’ve done the best I could. And, with CTOAM, I know I have.
Five out of the six drugs recommended by CTOAM were funded. The first drug, which was funded, worked for about eight months. But cancer is a horrible disease! It figures out the treatment and then learns how to grow in spite of it, so then the drug that used to be effective is no longer effective.
And that’s what Alex does so well: he’s always on top of what’s coming down the pipeline. As soon as one drug stops working, he has another waiting in the wings to try. In the last two years, there’s been six different drugs, or combinations of drugs. Five of them were funded.
I’d recommend you hire somebody like CTOAM that can help you get this [genetic testing, personalized research, and advocacy] done.
And if I were a doctor, what better than having someone doing all this legwork for you – bringing you the latest information and supporting it with evidence – and having a back-and-forth dialogue about how to give your patient the most effective and least invasive treatment possible? Again, it changed my original oncologist’s view of what he would have done.
So, even though I felt a little apprehensive about hiring CTOAM at first – mainly because it was outside the BC Cancer Agency umbrella – as time goes on, Alex’s approaches have been validated not once, not twice, but three times! And so, today? Total confidence! Wouldn’t doubt at all that I made the right decision."
– Margaret South, client
"Hi Michelle,
Thank you very much for the discussion we had yesterday. Alex was very clear and helpful. He made sense of bits of information we already had and brought a lot of new information we didn't know about it. We do appreciate his knowledge and effort to help us a lot.
A big thank you to you, too, because you made this discussion happen...and for all the support we may need in the future!"
- Nina O.
"Let me thank you for the time you and Alex spent with us the other evening. We were impressed with your knowledge, professionalism, caring, and obvious passion for what you do."
– M. and G. Hildebrand
"My consultation with Alex was great! Alex is very approachable. His responses are very compassionate and informative. And when I took my notes from our consultation to my Oncologist he agreed with the suggestions that Alex had made. It was a very beneficial experience for me. I highly recommend it."
– J.K.
(Get the most accurate diagnosis and most effective treatment for your cancer's molecular features.)
On your call, you will also get a free copy of our 20 Questions to Ask Your Oncologist – So You Get Better Cancer Treatment – an essential guide that we usually only share with clients.
Please Note: We value your time, and we also value ours. Please understand that this free consultation is for patients (as well as their loved ones) who are interested in learning about their science-based cancer care options beyond what is being offered in standard cancer care. Should you choose to work with us, the diagnostics and the time from our team do cost money, because they are not yet accessible through public health care. It is our long-term goal to make these advancements a part of standard public healthcare, but that process is very long due to the nature of bureaucratic infrastructure, and cancer patients today do not have that kind of time to waste. And so we are providing this service to patients while standard healthcare catches up.
Most often, we are able to help our patients access new treatments either completely free of charge – by getting them fully covered through insurance or through the pharmaceutical companies or compassionate care), or at a greatly reduced price through international pharmacies. Please book your free consultation only if you are wanting to explore your options beyond what standard care is able to offer you at this point in time.
We are honored to be able to serve patients like you. It is our mission to ensure that as many cancer patients as possible understand what all of their cancer care options truly are, and are able to access them with as much speed and as little stress (and cost) as possible. We understand how difficult a time this is for you. Our team is here to support you through this.
If you would like to find out what is truly possible for you in cancer care today, please book your free cancer care consultation with us today. When it comes to cancer, time is of the essence.
Please note that our Cancer Care Research and Advocacy Specialists only have a limited number of free consultations available each month and they do fill up fast.
Here’s what to do next: Click the button below, fill out your intake form to help us make the most of your time, and pick your appointment time. We look forward to talking with you very soon.
Click the link below now to schedule your call.
Sincerely,
Alex Rolland
Precision Cancer Medicine Specialist and Director of Scientific Research
Cancer Treatment
Options and
Management
(Don't wait to ensure you're getting the best possible treatment!)
On your call, you will also get a free copy of our 20 Questions to Ask Your Oncologist – So You Get Better Cancer Treatment – an essential guide that we usually only share with clients.