When asked why it was important for a regional cancer care center to affiliate with a university-level comprehensive cancer care program, Steven Plaxe, MD, Director of Eisenhower’s Lucy Curci Cancer Center, offered this compelling insight into the advantages that this partnership brings to the Eisenhower Health system:

What we find is there are lots of patients who really would do very well with some of the innovative and really latest treatments available at comprehensive cancer centers. By affiliating with a comprehensive cancer center like UCSD, there are treatments and interventions that are available only at these centers. We’re able to bring clinical research, consultants, and facilitate specialty and consultative care, tumor conferences and discussions with multiple experts in a number of fields that can bear upon each patients’ cancer. Only through affiliation with a comprehensive cancer center can we bring these important interventions, treatments and options closer to patients where they live. It’s within easy reach.”

Steven Plaxe, MD, and Katie Schnaser, FACHE

Katie Schnaser, FACHE, Chief Administrative Officer, Eisenhower Lucy Curci Cancer Center, points out that those advanced services and programs augment the already-strong regional cancer center services that Lucy Curci Cancer Center provides. Ms. Schnaser highlighted the genetic counseling program, subspecialty clinics for rare cancers and a lecture series that takes advantage of UC San Diego Health knowledge and talent as outstanding examples of what the partnership is already delivering. This partnership is a real game-changer for Eisenhower Health and the community it serves. On this audio podcast you will learn more about the expanded services and capabilities this partnership makes possible, including:

• Genetic counseling services
• Subspecialty clinics for rare cancers
• Expanded access to clinical trials and research
• Expanded lecture series
• Hereditary cancer syndromes
• Cancer genetics

Take some time to learn how this exciting new partnership has given residents in the Coachella Valley area access to the latest and greatest in cancer treatments. It’s now within easy reach. There are many more resources available at the Eisenhower Luci Curci Cancer Center web page – including Events & Lectures, Clinical Trials and more.

More great AUDIO information is also available for you at the Eisenhower Audio Podcast Library. Do you also enjoy video? Visit the Eisenhower Video Library as well!

GREAT NEWS!!!

U.S. News & World Report has released its prestigious annual hospital rankings. Eisenhower Health ranks #1 in the Inland Empire and #12 in California. Eisenhower Health was also rated High Performing in 20 types of care — the highest number of specialty recognitions earned by a hospital in the Inland Empire, including Lung Cancer Surgery.

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