Imagine yourself in your patients’ shoes, feeling the anxiety and fear of having just been diagnosed with cancer. Now imagine being told it’s going to take 6 weeks or longer before you’re able to receive treatment. Brian J. Bowell, MD, Chairman of Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, discusses how reducing time to treatment became a vision for him and how he helped inspire our cancer center teams to share best practices and reduce time to treat over the past several years. He discusses barriers we still need to tackle and provides recommendations on how other cancer centers can help make progress on this critical issue.