Cancer Care

Our Adolescent + Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Program helps individuals aged 18-39 navigate life after cancer treatment.

With experimental therapeutics, doctors and researchers work side-by-side with laboratory scientists to create the latest therapies and most promising clinical trials.

We focus our research efforts on:

• Offering treatments to people with tumors that haven't responded to standard drugs
• Developing new drugs to treat cancer more effectively and with fewer complications
• Understanding the biology of cancer and how drug treatments work
• Creating practices for better diagnosis and more accurate prognosis

Good nutrition is an important component of your cancer treatment. Eating the right kinds of foods before, during and after cancer treatment will help you feel better, stay stronger and navigate the side effects of cancer treatment.

Nutrition therapy is used to:

• Help you get the nutrients you need to maintain body weight and strength
• Replace and keep body tissues healthy
• Fight infection

Reiki therapy is an alternative medicine that channels energy to promote healing, provide relaxation, promote balance and improve one's sense of well-being. Reiki sessions may help manage symptoms and side effects of chemotherapy and other medications, as well as improve health challenges such as anxiety, pain, fatigue and insomnia.

By integrating Reiki therapy and other complementary holistic services into your traditional cancer treatments, we can provide a more well-rounded healing experience.

While chemotherapy is a very important part of many cancer treatment plans, it can lead to hair loss. Scalp cooling helps prevent or minimize the damaging effects of chemotherapy on hair follicles by lowering the scalp's temperature immediately before, during and after chemotherapy treatment.

One scalp cooling system we use is called the Paxman Scalp Cooling System. The Paxman is a helmet-like cap that snugly fits on a person's head. As it's worn, the Paxman circulates cooling fluid through the cap to lower the scalp's temperature during treatments.

You should never feel alone or unsupported at any point throughout your cancer journey. Our range of support services offer encouragement before, during and after your treatments, including:

• Family therapy
• Genetic counseling and familial risk assessments
• Individual therapy
• Nutrition counseling
• Palliative care
• Physical therapy
• Social work support
• Support groups (ask your care team for information)
• Visiting nurse home care

There are more than 15.5 million cancer survivors in the United States. Our survivorship program offers a lifelong support system to people who have completed active cancer treatment. We’ll help smooth your transition from treatment to life after cancer by offering medical and wellness care, such as:

• Caring for your mental and emotional health
• Establishing a healthy and nutritious diet
• Maintaining recommended follow-up care, such as regular check-ups with your oncologist
• Making connections with cancer support groups
• Managing physical changes and side effects of treatment
• Monitoring, detecting and preventing new or recurrent cancers