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Our Services
- Clinical Care Programs
- Clinical Trials
- Comprehensive Cancer Support Program
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- Screening and Prevention
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- UNC Cancer Network
- What patients are saying about us
UNC has been providing multidisciplinary, patient-centered cancer care for more than thirty years. Our system has been used as a model by other cancer centers and oncology practices across the nation.
At many institutions, cancer patients have to navigate the system, meet separately with the different specialists, and then process and evaluate multiple - and sometimes conflicting - recommendations. At the N.C. Cancer Hospital, every effort is made to schedule appointments with a number of specialists during one visit. The results of these appointments are then carefully reviewed at a team conference, often on the very same day.
For the patient, this means that they are located at the hub of a system where a team of caregivers including surgical oncologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, nutritionists, behavioral health specialists, symptom management specialists and others review each patient's case together and recommend a combination of therapies tailored to the patient's individual needs.
Multidisciplinary conferences have proven critical to improved patient care, streamlining treatment pathways, improving access to clinical trials of new therapies, and providing doctors with opportunities to interact with colleagues - all to the patient's benefit.
Advances in health care are impossible without human testing. Whether a treatment is a vitamin, a cancer drug, a surgical procedure, a new way to detect disease or a medical device, at some point it has to be tested on people.
Human studies, or clinical trials, are sponsored or funded by a variety of sources such as physicians, hospitals, foundations, pharmaceutical companies, voluntary or advocacy groups, universities and government agencies. Ideas for clinical trials usually come from researchers. These researchers will test new therapies or procedures in the laboratory and in animal studies, and the most promising results move on to clinical trials.
Clinical trials are extremely important to cancer patients, who may have exhausted all other forms of treatment, yet still have active disease. These patients can find hope in new treatments offered only through clinical trials and satisfaction in the fact that their participation in a clinical trial may lead to safer, more effective treatments for future patients.
- Second Opinion Oncology Specialty Clinics
- Patient Navigation Programs
- Community Outreach focused on cancer prevention and education
- Hands of Hope Community Care Teams
The UNC Cancer Network collaborates with partners across the state to enhance cancer care for all North Carolinians. Projects include:
For referring physicians:
For Patients:
- Click here for information about or appointments with one of the clinical programs, or call toll-free 1-866-869-1856
- Click here for clinical trials information, or call 919-966-4432 or toll free 1-877-668-0683
