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among its top-notch graduate schools, including the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health. This collaboration and the close physical proximity of the schools to each other,
facilitates intermingling of the faculty and students. As a result, UNC Cancer can make available to patients a particularly broad range of trials, from first-in-man studies to opportunities to participate in studies that collect tens of thousands of participants. At UNC Cancer, a variety of health professionals help patients get access to these trials, according to Richard Goldberg, M.D., N.C. Cancer Hospital physician-in-chief and associate director for clinical research at UNC Lineberger. He noted that 850 patients took part in clinical trials in the last year. “We firmly believe that the opportunity to participate in a trial and to access the quality of care that research studies demand should be an option for every person with cancer,” he said. Clinical trials focus on virtually all types of
cancer, as well as on newly developed drugs for the treatment of cancer. “There are more drugs in development now than at any other time in history,” Goldberg
said. “Many of them have been developed at comprehensive cancer centers like UNC Lineberger.” Some of the most exciting new treatments are designed to specifically target the genetic changes that lead to cancer, reducing the side effects commonly associated with cancer chemotherapy. UNC Cancer’s breast cancer program illustrates the range of possible opportunities available to patients who can join clinical trials on the causes, prevention and treatment of breast cancer. The Carolina Breast Cancer Study, which started in 1993, is currently enrolling an additional 3,000 women to further examine the causes of breast cancer and reason for racial disparities in survival. The UNC Breast Center takes a “bench to
bedside and back” approach to breast cancer, bringing the results of scientific research into the clinical setting, where physicians can collect information from the patients they treat and bring it back to the researchers. “Research is an integral part of multidisciplinary care,” Lisa Carey, M.D., medical director of the UNC Breast Center and associate director of clinical science at UNC Lineberger, said. The UNC Cancer program has also been
an innovator in the use of robotic surgery in the treatment of gynecologic and genitourinary cancers, and is addressing such developing issues as geriatric oncology, the role genetics plays in cancer, and personalized medicine through its Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy. UNC is also one of the nation’s leading centers for bone marrow transplants, with 180 transplants performed last year, and is transitioning its program so that eligible transplant patients will be managed on an outpatient basis whenever possible. “It’s so important for patients and their
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Dr. Keith Amos of UNC Cancer.
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Dr. Sanjeev K. Aggarwal, medical director of The Cancer Center at Lake Manassas, with Dr. Moira Sutton, radiation oncologist.
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provide the highest level of care for patients and their families in this area,” Administrative Director Peter Dritschilo said. That means growing to meet the needs of the community with increased staff and services. Medical Director Sanjeev Aggarwal has recently been joined by partner Dr. Moira Sutton, who has received degrees from Duke University and Columbia University. Additionally, recently joining the cancer center is patient navigator Jackie Glenn, who helps guide patients through both the logistical and emotional maze of cancer treatment. The Cancer Center, which has been accredited as a radiation oncology facility and for PET/CT scanning by the American College of Radiology, is in the process of purchasing a second high-tech linear accelerator to accommodate the increasing number of patients it serves and provide another form of radiation therapy known as stereotactic radiosurgery. This form of treatment treats very small tumors that are located near critical organs. The Center also offers RapidArc treatment, which reduces the amount of time per radiation session from 10-12 minutes to 1-2 minutes, and offers a precisely controlled beam that moves around the patient in an arcing motion and potentially lessens the risk of damaging nearby healthy tissue. Breast cancer patients are evaluated and
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