• Seven medical oncologists with offices on the campus of Brookwood Medical Center provide inpatient and outpatient care and offer patients a full range of chemotherapeutic agents as well as growth factor injections.
• The Brookwood Cancer Care Center also provides a variety of Medical Oncology services on an outpatient basis, including: blood transfusions, chemotherapy, blood work, injections, hydration, and medication infusions.

   

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Radiation Oncology Services

Radiation Oncology services are provided in the newly renovated Cancer Care Center. The Cancer Care Center is easily accessible to patients. Free parking is available in a dedicated lot with front door access to the Cancer Care Center.

On-site radiation oncologists, oncology nurses and support staff are committed to providing personal, attentive care and advanced treatment options, such as: 

• External Beam Radiation Therapy: With the use of a Linear Accelerator, high energy radiation is delivered to the appropriate area in a series of short treatments, five days a week, over a six to eight week period.
• IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy): External Beam Therapy that uses radiation beams of varying intensities to deliver different doses of radiation to small areas of tissue at the same time.
• High Dose Rate Brachytherapy: Utilizes a special machine that delivers high intensity radiation with a single source of radioactive material through a series of catheters.
• Prostate Seed Implants: Tiny radioactive seeds are inserted directly into the prostate. The patient’s body blocks most of the radiation, so minimal radiation precautions are needed.
• Superficial Therapy: Low energy x-rays used to treat tumors on or close to the skin.
• Mammosite® (Partial Breast Radiation Treatment): High Dose Rate Unit delivers radiation twice a day for 5 treatments. This unit delivers the radiation through a catheter into a balloon that has been surgically placed into the lumpectomy site.
• Savi™: Similar to Mammosite, but instead of a balloon, an expandable device is placed utilizing multiple catheters and has greater flexibility in treatment delivery.
• Gliasite® Radiation Therapy System: Treats metastatic and recurrent brain tumors by delivering radiation into the cavity created after the tumor is surgically removed.
• Outpatient Chemotherapy and Infusion