University of Virginia Cancer Center
University of Virginia Cancer Center
Cancer Specialties: The UVa Cancer Center offers many innovative and state of the art methods of cancer treatment for all types of cancer, including lung cancer, malignant mesothelioma, thymoma, and thymic carcinoma.
Primary location:
UVa Cancer Cancer
UVa Health System
West Complex, 4th Floor
1300 Jefferson Park Avenue
Charlottesville, VA 22908
URL: http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/cancer/
About the UVa Cancer Center:
We are at a historic inflection point in cancer care and research. Although almost half of us may get cancer, we can say for the first time that the defeat of cancer can occur – not at some distant time – but in the foreseeable future. Advances in understanding the molecular and cellular basis of cancer, the human genome project, and information technology have given us the tools to detect, treat, diagnose, and prevent cancer in ways that were only dreamed of a decade ago. We anticipate a time when cancer therapies and preventives are specific, non-toxic, and customized for each person, based on scientific profiling of that individual’s molecular makeup and the molecular makeup of the tumor.
The University of Virginia is helping to forge this new era of cancer care, drawing on its deep scientific strengths, its patient-centered architecture of care, and its tradition of collaboration and compassion. Our goal is to deliver the very best of contemporary cancer care and use discovery science to bring the future closer.
The Thoracic Care Team at the University of Virginia takes a team-based approach to offer patients the best treatments for lung cancer, malignant mesothelioma, thymoma, and thymic carcinoma. The multidisciplinary team consists of thoracic surgeons, medical and radiation oncologists, thoracic radiologists, pathologists, pulmonologists, oncology nurses, psychosocial and palliative care experts as well as researchers. The team offers patients convenient, “one-stop” evaluations of proven or suspected cancers. Treatment plans are evidence-based and designed individually for each patient following input from multiple disciplines.
