SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER

Nataliya, a patient of Sheba’s shares her story: I was first diagnosed with cervical cancer when back in 1994. I was 22. I had irradiation and chemotherapy in the regional center. Then a year later there was a relapse, irradiation, and chemotherapy in Moscow. After 2 years we succeeded to stop the process. The second time I was diagnosed with cervical cancer was in 2011. Read more >

I wish to praise the Pulmonary Oncology staff for their patience and the outstanding, professional and attentive medical care I received. It is also very important to mention the amazing compassionate attitude towards my husband, who had to endure with me and my sudden illness. I am deeply grateful to Dr. Onn for the privilege to be treated by him. Besides him being the most highly qualified professional, he is an amazing person. My thanks go to Rossie Navon, the chief nurse of the Pulmonary Oncology Unit, for everything she did for me. For being available and approachable every hour of the day, even on weekends and after her shift hours; for her patience, care and compassion. And of course I have to mention Zviela and Osnat, the unit’s administrators, who were always warm and helpful.

To the Oncology Department team,
We would like to express to you our deepest gratitude and appreciation for the personal, warm and dedicated treatment each and every one of you had granted.
We are grateful and we thank God that the much needed treatment was granted by this exceptional team.
As the precept goes: “whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world” – that is said about you.

In August 2015 my whole world came crushing down around me, suddenly and without any warning. Seizures, followed by a discovery of a violent tumor in my brain. At this point my life has changed it course.
On this way I’ve met the new light of my life, Dr. Leor Zach, as well as found another home: Sheba Medical Center. Beyond all formal degrees, great knowledge and professional excellence I’ve discovered a person with amazing personality, sensitivity, understanding, honesty and extraordinary values.
My journey was a difficult one: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, experimental biological treatment; my everyday life was dedicated to getting better. I always knew that somewhere down the hall I had a light. Dr. Leor (from Hebrew “my light”) has the ability to contain, to listen, to be there for me and for all my family members, with patience, sincerity and a lot of faith.
The statistics was not encouraging, but here I am – still alive, enjoying myself, active, present and contributing. At the same time, I proudly accompany my daughter towards the end of her medical studies.
Special thanks also in place to Elisheva Jan R.N., who was always there with her warm smile, understanding and devotion. I have received the best team and the best treatment, and for this I want to thank them from the bottom of my heart.
Regardless of the more distant future and the state of my health, a special star was lit in my life, and I want to continue to spread the light of Leor.
I hope that in the near future, as a professional in the field of therapy, I will be able to contribute from my experience and volunteer to help patients who are still in the process.

Wishing you health and sending heartfelt thanks.

Dear Meirav Breast Center team,
After a grueling 10 months of “combat training” with you, I can tell the story of the amazing job you all are doing. The Meirav Breast Center provides a wide range of services for the breast cancer patients, all of them coordinated by just 5 women. 5 women who are there to receive the documents, phone calls, make appointments, receive biopsies, follow up on the results, manage the waiting list and much more. All of those are just a tip of the iceberg. You all are the heart of this Center.
Attentive to each woman’s story (every one is a whole world in himself), comforting and reassuring, supporting and providing with a glass of water or a tissue at the most devastating moment of learning the diagnosis from the doctor, hugging those who come for a follow-up, or (the most happy moments) with a baby. I could continue count your blessed doings for much longer. The amount of warm heart-felt words and chocolates that you receive is enormous, since you are the biggest support system the patients get.
I’m leaving now, feeling a little blue. There is something in the action surrounding this place that makes you addicted. So I’m sure I will be back, but for now, all I need is a little rest.
Thank you for all you are doing, it’s not trivial, especially doing it from the bottom of your hearts. I hope you will always find strength to continue, there are so many women who still need you.
Hope to see you only on happy occasions,
Love you all very much.