Cancer treatments & therapies

A diagnosis of cancer can feel daunting. But at Advocate Health Care, we offer the most advanced treatments and therapies available to help you face the journey head-on.

At each of our locations throughout the Chicago area, you’ll find a dedicated care team committed to providing you with high-quality, compassionate care. These specialists – including medical and radiation oncologists, surgeons, specially trained nurses and more – work closely together and with you to create a fully personalized treatment plan. Along the way, you'll find a full range of support services to help manage any side effects or challenges you or your family may face, so you can focus on healing. Find an Advocate Cancer Institute near you.

Surgery

For various types of cancer, and tumors in certain locations, surgery is the optimal treatment. Our surgeons are specially trained in the latest minimally invasive technology, like the da Vinci® Robotic Surgical System, allowing them to operate with just a few small incisions and unmatched precision and control. For patients who qualify, this technology offers a variety of benefits, including less pain, fewer complications and faster recovery.

Radiation therapy

More than fifty percent of all cancer patients will require radiation therapy during their treatment programs. We offer the most advanced technology available today to deliver highly powerful radiation right to the tumor, while sparing surrounding healthy tissue. Specialties include:

• High-dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy
• Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
• RapidArc® Radiotherapy

Medical therapy

Advocate Health Care offers the latest and most effective medical therapies in healing outpatient settings that feel like home. Innovative chemotherapy options include chemoembolization, which delivers drugs directly into the blood vessel feeding the tumor, and HIPEC, which combines chemo and cancer surgery. You may also be a candidate for breakthrough treatments like immunotherapy, which trains the body’s own defense system to fight and kill cancer.

Precision medicine

Precision medicine is a data-focused approach to personalizing cancer care using your tumor’s molecular footprint. The goal of precision medicine is to provide patients with treatment options tailored to their unique needs. By accessing a database of other cancer cases across the country, doctors can compare your tumor with other patients’ health circumstances, what treatments were tried and what the outcomes were.

Leading-edge clinical trials

At Advocate, we believe that all patients – even those with advanced or late-stage cancer – should be given every chance to fight the disease. These studies give you or your loved ones direct access to new cancer therapies, devices and medications before they are widely available.

Find a cancer clinical trial.