Cancer Care
State-of-the-Art Cancer Treatment

Cancer today is a highly treatable and often curable disease. But not every hospital and physician has equal capabilities and the differences can be significant when you need specialized care. When you want the best that medicine can offer, the Lutheran General Cancer Care Center is here for you—offering the latest advancements delivered with compassion, care and respect.

The Lutheran General Cancer Care Center has expertise in the full range of cancer treatment approaches and is committed to constantly exploring newer, more effective options.

• We are at the forefront of radiation therapy. Our advanced equipment includes: linear accelerators, which beam electrons or high-energy X-rays through the skin to the targeted site; a multileaf collimator, which precisely focuses the accelerator's beam, avoiding damage to healthy cells, and intensity modulated radiotherapy - a new method of treatment that delivers intense treatment to tumors without damaging healthy tissue.
• Our chemotherapy programs range from the well-established to the experimental. At the Cancer Care Center, we stay at the leading edge of new breakthroughs in chemotherapy drugs, dosages and delivery through our leadership and involvement in clinical trials.
• We offer biologic therapy. This modality is known as immunotherapy which mobilizes the body’s immune system to recognize cancer cells as foreign invaders and destroy them.
• We excel in bone marrow and stem cell transplants. Both capabilities are important in treating patients fighting acute leukemia, lymphoma or multiple myeloma.
• The Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Tumor Clinic offers comprehensive evaluation of patients with newly diagnosed and recurrent tumors of the head and neck region.

All cancer care is delivered by specially trained and dedicated physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, pastoral care counselors, therapists and dietitians. This multi-disciplinary philosophy of care offers patients and their families the expertise, warmth and support they need while undergoing cancer treatment, and has proven to be a very effective approach in winning the war on cancer.