Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
Cancer Specialties: The Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center comprehensively treats all types of cancer from diagnosis onwards.
Primary location:
4950 Essen Lane
Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Phone: (225) 767-0847
Fax: (225) 215-1215
URL: http://www.marybird.org/
About Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center:
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center has been fighting cancer for over 35 years.
It is the only comprehensive radiation therapy treatment center in the region offering tailored solutions to complex cancer care and non-cancerous conditions. Its expert treatment team is the largest and most experienced in Louisiana, treating more patients with radiation therapy than any other facility in the state. Mary Bird Perkins is also home to the state’s largest medical physics team, experts who work closely with physicians to best plan a patient’s care.
In recent years, Mary Bird Perkins has invested over $25 million to bring southeast Louisiana residents the most advanced radiation therapy available in the world including IMRT; advanced IGRT through BrainLAB Novalis and the TomoTherapy HI-ART System; stereotactic radiosurgery; adaptive radiotherapy and four-dimensional CT tumor localization. Mary Bird Perkins has an exclusive research partnership with Louisiana State University to discover new cancer treatments, enabling the Center to attract the brightest minds in cancer treatment to Baton Rouge.
Through accreditation with Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center in Baton Rouge and St. Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center is able to offer patients the most advanced continuum of cancer care available. Our combined resources allow local residents to seek treatment close to home where innovative, world-class treatment is right in their own backyard.
