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“We Believe in Memphis” is a media outreach ministry that’s aim is to tell the good stories and good news of the Memphis Metro area. Our WCC founder, Dr. Bill West, meets with Stan Stanford and Maxi Dunham to talk about his own story, West Cancer Center, and his goals for the future! To view the entire segment, please visit http://www.webelieveinmemphis.org/west-cancer-center-dr-bill-west/.
West’s very own Dr. Lee Schwartzberg participated in the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium video program yesterday! During his time at #SABCS17, he was interviewed about Phase II study findings evaluating exemastane with or without enzalutamide in patients with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. Click below to see the full video! http://www.ascopost.com/videos/2017-san-antonio-breast-cancer-symposium/lee-s-schwartzberg-md-on-hrplus-breast-cancer-treatment-trial-results/
A new cancer center model is helping meet the demand for better quality cancer care in community settings. An original paper in ADC Review | Journal of Antibody-drug Conjugates, a peer-reviewed journal published by InPress Media Group, LLC, describes the concept. Hybrid academic-community cancer centers began emerging and evolving at several sites in some southern… Read more »
Members of the University of Memphis women’s basketball team as well as coaches and additional athletic support staff made its second visit Friday morning to the West Cancer Center in Germantown. The Tigers made their first trip just over a year ago. “There are hundreds of people that walk through these doors every day and… Read more »
Our very own Thoracic Oncologist, Dr. Benny Weksler, appeared on KWAM The Voice‘s radio show this month in honor of Lung Cancer Awareness. Dr. Weksler spoke with radio host, Bernadette Davis, about the importance of lung cancer screenings and shared information about West Cancer Center’s resources, such as our smoking cessation clinic and patient support… Read more »
Doctors were just guessing a decade ago when they gave Alison Cairnes’ husband a new drug they hoped would shrink his lung tumors. Now she takes it, but the choice was no guesswork. Sophisticated gene tests suggested it would fight her gastric cancer, and they were right. Cancer patients increasingly are having their care… Read more »
In a study that received national publicity three years ago, Memphis was identified as having by far the greatest disparity in breast cancer-mortality rates between black and white women of any of the 50 largest U.S. cities from 2005 through 2009. Locally, black women during that five-year period died from the disease at a rate of 44.3 per 100,000… Read more »
Breakthrough approach now available in the Mid-South Memphis, TN: September 26, 2017 – West Cancer Center announced today that Adam ElNaggar, MD, Gynecologic Oncologist at West Cancer Center, has successfully pioneered the use of sentinel lymph node mapping (SLNM) in gynecologic cancers – never before done in the Mid-South. West Cancer Center is thrilled to… Read more »
Years after a Mid-South woman thought she’d beat cancer, doctors delivered devastating news. The cancer that originally appeared in one of her eyes had moved to another part of her body. Without an aggressive plan of attack, the cancer could kill her. Now, a medical breakthrough is improving those odds. Every six weeks or so,… Read more »
“The Cancer Support Community sees that immunotherapy is greatly impacting how we treat cancer, with marked advances in the treatment of lung, melanoma, genitourinary, hematologic, head and neck cancers, and more,” said Kim Thiboldeaux, CEO, Cancer Support Community. “This is why we are so excited to work with our pilot partners to improve the experience… Read more »