Markey Cancer Center
Markey Cancer Center
Cancer Specialties: The Markey Cancer Center treats all types of cancer including lung, esophageal and thoracic cancers
Primary location:
University of Kentucky
800 Rose St.
Lexington, KY 40536-0293
Phone (866) 340-4488
URL: http://www.ukhealthcare.uky.edu/Markey/lung.asp
About Markey Cancer Center:
Our cancer specialty teams work together with UK Chandler Hospital departments and divisions to provide primary patient care and support services. All diagnostic services, clinical and pathology laboratories, operating rooms, emergent and intensive care, and radiation therapy services are also provided to cancer patients through UK Chandler Hospital.
Due to the complexity of cancer, the Markey Cancer Center stresses a team approach to cancer treatment. A team includes a dedicated primary nurse, oncology nurse care manager, dietitian, social worker, pharmacist, chaplain, volunteers and, if needed, a physical or enterostomal therapist. The most important members of the team are our patients and their families.
The Multidisciplinary Lung Cancer Program includes multiple oncology specialists who have a broad range of expertise in all aspects of lung cancer. Conditions treated include small and non-small cell lung cancer, mesothelioma, thymoma, esophageal cancer, bronchial carcinoid and other thoracic cancers. Surgery, radiation and chemotherapy treatments are state-of-the-art, supplemented by national research studies as well as treatments with promising new drug regimens.
The Markey Cancer Center is among the few institutions nationwide providing multidisciplinary care through Clinical Care and Research Teams (CCARTs). Major CCARTs include breast, gynecologic, gastrointestinal, head and neck, lung, brain, hematologic and genitourinary cancers.
The entire Markey Cancer Center and UK Chandler Hospital complex serves approximately 1,300 – 1,500 new cancer patients each year. More than 100 nationally sponsored clinical studies for different types of cancer are available to patients.
