Cancer Treatment
The Cancer Care Center's treatment facilities include:
- An inpatient medical oncology unit offering patient-centered care
- Surgical facilities offering the most advanced surgical treatment of cancer, including minimally invasive techniques for many types of cancer
- Comprehensive Radiation Oncology Center to provide radiation therapy to cancer patients
- Multidisciplinary clinics that take a team approach to fighting cancer
- Outpatient Infusion Center, providing chemotherapy, blood transfusions, IV antibiotics and other infusion therapies in a comfortable outpatient setting
- Clinical research program offering some of the most advanced clinical trials in the region
- National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers designation to ensure our patients will have access to comprehensive care, clinical trials, a multidisciplinary team approach for best treatment options close to home
- Oncology nutrition services offer nutritional consultation to patients
- Comprehensive High Risk Cancer Program provides risk evaluation, counseling, education and specialized services for individuals at increased risk for cancer
- Rehab services, including physical, occupational and speech therapies to help patients prevent or regain loss of function following cancer treatment. The lymphedema program offers prevention and treatment for this condition
- Palliative care, providing family-centered care to those with life-limiting illness who are experiencing uncontrolled symptoms
- Complementary therapies to integrate into your treatment
- Central Baptist Hospital Home Health Care offering in-home services such as nursing care and home infusion therapies
At the Central Baptist Hospital Cancer Care Center, we use a team approach to care. In addition to physicians and nurses, our treatment team includes:
- Oncology clinical nurse specialists to help patients and families navigate the healthcare process
- Oncology social worker to help patients and families deal with financial, insurance and other issues that can arise
- Chaplains to help patients reclaim their spiritual strength
- Clinical dietitians to provide care and information on nutrition and cancer
- A hospital-based hospice nurse liaison who works with patients, families and staff to meet the special needs of hospice care patients
- An enterostomal therapist to provide care and education for patients who have had bowel or bladder diversions
- Patients diagnosed with cancer benefit from the services of our nurse navigators
- Physical, occupational and speech therapists to help restore or maximize functions affected by cancer and cancer treatments