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For more than twenty years, West Cancer Center’s Gynecologic Oncology Division has provided rapid access to the most comprehensive treatment for women across the Mid-South. Beginning with the hiring of Linda Smiley, MD, FACOG in 1995, West Cancer Center integrated a more refined and targeted approach to patient care, delivering customized – and multidisciplinary –… Read more »
The latest version of the NCCN breast cancer guidelines incorporates the use of genomic expression profiling to assist in adjuvant treatment decision making in women with hormone receptor (HR)– positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. Genomic profiling has been found to successfully predict the benefit of endocrine therapy, as was demonstrated in the TAILORx study, said Lee… Read more »
At first, Sauphia Lanning thought she might just ring the bell by herself. “I’m not a big ‘let’s come celebrate me’ type of person,” she said. But then she thought of everyone who had checked in on her and prayed for her as she battled cancer over the past nine months. She thought of her… Read more »
The words “You have cancer” have a devastating effect on patients and their families. The diagnosis throws them into a previously unknown world of tests, treatments, and more tests. Once patients have gone into remission and are hopefully cured, they try to go back to their lives and put their cancer experience behind them. Given… Read more »
Effective April 3, Drs. Ratliff and Verrier will join the West Cancer Center faculty as the newest board certified Medical Oncologists & Hematologists. With more than 30 years of collective experience delivering compassionate, patient centered care, this exceptional group of care providers will advance the West Cancer Center mission to provide patients access to the most innovative and comprehensive services available for their cancer journey.
Projects focus on collaboration, translational methodology to drive impactful patient outcomes MEMPHIS, TENN., February 15, 2017 – West Cancer Center announced today that it has awarded four intramural grants for cancer research. The awarded grants, each valued at $50,000, were among the almost 20 proposals received by West Cancer Center for its annual grant awarding… Read more »
The Mississippi RiverKings’ staff and players made a Valentine’s Day visit to the patients and members of the West Cancer Center. Established in 2014, the non-profit ogranization solicits grants and donations to broaden innovative research and cancer treatment programs for adults. The University of Tennessee/West Institute for Cancer Research focuses on four areas of research such as: Drug… Read more »
The University of Memphis women’s basketball team spent several hours Monday afternoon at the West Cancer Center in Germantown, Tenn. Players, coaches, and additional athletic support staff took part in activities at the WCC. “The first thing that it shows us is that West Cancer Center is an amazing facility and the great job they… Read more »
Faculty, Residents and Fellows contribute abstracts accepted for presentation at 2017 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer® Congratulations to West Cancer Center’s Gynecologic Oncology Division, who successfully submitted seven abstracts for acceptance at the SGO’s Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer, March 12-15, 2017 in National Harbor, MD. Since 1969, women’s health care professionals have convened at… Read more »
Jerri Simpson instrumental in development of on-site “Look Good Feel Better” Program Jerri Simpson, RN-BC, OCN, has received the 2016 Excellence in Best Practice Award from the American Cancer Society. An Infusion Nurse at West Cancer Center’s Corinth location, Jerri was instrumental in the local development and implementation of the American Cancer Society’s Look Good… Read more »