Maine Center for Cancer Medicine & Blood Disorders
Maine Center for Cancer Medicine & Blood Disorders
Cancer Specialties: The MCCM treats all types of cancer, including breast, head and neck, lung, etc.
Primary location:
100 Campus Drive, Suite 108
Scarborough, Maine 04074-9308
Phone: (207) 885-7600
Fax: (207) 885-7610
Other locations:
81 Medical Center Drive
Suite 1300G
Brunswick, ME 04011
Phone: (207) 729-1148
Fax: (207) 729-2789
26 West Cole Road
Biddeford, Maine 04005-9407
Phone: (207) 282-0448
Fax: (207) 286-9126
Cancer Care Center of York County
27 Industrial Avenue
Sanford, ME 04073
Phone: (207 490-7777
Fax: (207) 490-7779
URL: http://www.mccm.org/index.aspx
About the MCCM Cancer Center:
Choice of cancer treatment is influenced by several factors, including the specific characteristics of your cancer; your overall condition; and whether the goal of treatment is to cure your cancer, keep your cancer from spreading, or to relieve the symptoms caused by cancer. Depending on these factors, you may receive one or more of the following:
* Surgery
* Chemotherapy
* Radiation therapy
* Hormonal therapy
* Targeted therapy
* Biological therapy
One or more treatment modalities may be used to provide you with the most effective treatment. Increasingly, it is common to use several treatment modalities together (concurrently) or in sequence with the goal of preventing recurrence. This is referred to as multi-modality treatment of the cancer.
There is no longer a “one-size-fits-all” approach to cancer treatment. Even among patients with the same type of cancer, the behavior of the cancer and its response to treatment can vary widely. By exploring the reasons for this variation, researchers have begun to pave the way for more personalized cancer treatment. It is becoming increasingly clear that specific characteristics of cancer cells and cancer patients can have a profound impact on prognosis and treatment outcome. Although factoring these characteristics into treatment decisions makes cancer care more complex, it also offers the promise of improved outcomes.
