Cancer Center Profile

Comprehensive cancer resource centers provide a supportive environment in which patients can obtain accurate, current information about their specific type of cancer and become active partners in their healthcare. Access to up-to-date information can play a significant role in helping patients and their family members cope effectively with the complexities of cancer. Read More ›


Breastlink is a network of comprehensive breast centers that specifically focuses on providing treatment and care to women with breast cancer. The Breastlink Medical Group was founded in 1995 by John Link, MD, and now operates 5 breast cancer centers in California (4 in Southern California). Today, Breastlink offers a team-based, patient-centered approach to care, as well as a focus on research into the causes of and the cure for breast cancer. Read More ›


The Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio, by 4 physicians. At that time, it was one of the few group practices in the United States. This group practice model was very familiar to 3 of the founders—George Crile Sr, Frank Bunts, William Lower—as they served together in military hospitals near the front lines in World War I. These 3 colleagues were determined to establish a not-for-profit clinic that combined the best of military and civilian medical practices.

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After the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, Chicago became one of the fastest growing cities in the world. But in this time of prosperity and growth, the prognosis for children born in the city was grim. A child had only a 50% chance of surviving to the age of 5 years, and those who survived were likely to be exposed to a host of diseases. In 1882, Julia Foster Porter, a young widow who also lost a child to disease, took bold steps to transform the future of children’s health in Chicago. Read More ›


At Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, nurses man a 19-bed surgical oncology unit, taking care of a full range of surgical oncology patients “who have had complex surgery, for example, Whipple procedures, colon procedures, advanced gynecologic, ovarian debulking, as well as some of the newer procedures, which are the robotic hysterectomies and robotic prostatectomies,” says Betsy Brooks, manager of the surgical oncology unit. Read More ›

Jupiter Medical Center’s Ella Millbank Foshay Cancer Center offers cancer trials in and for its Florida community. But providing care close to home is just part of the oncology clinical research nurse’s role in the clinical trials unit.

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Following a lung cancer diagnosis, patients typically embark on a dizzying journey that takes them from one waiting room to another, as they follow their treatment plan from the medical oncologist to the surgical oncologist to the radiation oncologist and back again. Coordinating these visits imposes yet another burden on the patient and often leads to delays in care. Six years ago, St. Joseph Mercy Cancer Center in Ypsilanti, Michigan, decided to simplify life for their patients by opening a multidisciplinary lung cancer clinic.

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Contra Costa Regional Medical Center is a public hospital with 167 beds. Despite our hospital’s cost-conscious approach to formulary management, it was one of the first in the area to add the dexrazoxane for injection (Totect) emergency treatment kit to its formulary. This addition predated the On cology Nursing Society guidelines on managing anthracycline extravasation and followed a long process involving presentations to 4 hospital committees.

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What started as tumor board conferences a decade ago has grown into a true multidisciplinary team approach to comprehensive breast care. ProHealth Care’s Center for Breast Care at Waukesha Memorial Hospital’s Regional Cancer Center in Waukesha, Wisconsin, is an interdisciplinary breast cancer clinic where patients can see multiple specialists in one visit. With the opening of the clinic, the various specialists involved in patient care can talk to each other about a patient in real time, not replacing tumor board conferences, but taking patient care to the next level.

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This past April, Geisinger Medical Center’s (GMC) Cancer Institute became one of 14 sites added to the National Cancer Institute Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP). Joining this national network of community cancer centers offers GMC the opportunity to expand its state-of-the-art cancer care and research in northeast Pennsylvania.

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