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Regional Cancer Center
State of the Art Cancer Treatments

 
Southeast Missouri Hospital's new Regional Cancer Center

Southeast Missouri Hospital continues to invest in facilities, personnel, technologies and programs that make it possible for Southeast to provide oncology services that are unsurpassed in this region.  

Southeast is continuing its committment to cancer care with the addition of a new, 49,200 square foot Regional Cancer Centeron the Hospital's Campus.

Another example of this committment is found in the professionals who provide care at the Regional Cancer Center.

In 2008, more than 700 patients and their families put their trust in Southeast for quality, comprehensive and advanced cancer care delivered by a caring and compassionate staff.

Southeast's Hematology-Oncology clinical staff includes four Hematologist-Oncologists who offer the full range of chemotherapy and biotherapy  treatments for cancer and blood disorders.

Oncologists

Radiation Therapy is an important part of treatment for many cancer patients. Southeast's Radiation Therapy Department is among the state's finest, both in terms of personnel and technology.

The clinical staff in Southeast’s Radiation Therapy Department includes a full-time in-house board certified radiation oncologist, as well a board certified Ph.D. medical physicist, a board eligible physicist, and a  certified medical dosimetrist.


Joseph Miller, M.D.,
Medical Director of Radiation Oncology


Technology

Many of the diagnostic and therapeutic technologies housed in Southeast’s Regional Cancer Center are equal or superior to the equivalent technologies available at many of the nation’s best-known cancer treatment facilities. Those technologies include:

  • One of the few Novalis® Shaped Beam Surgery™ systems in the world (and the first in Missouri);
  • A large-bore 16 slice Phillips CT Simulator for precise tumor targeting;
  • A Varian Clinac 21EX linear accelerator, equipped to deliver Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), the same technology found at internationally-known cancer centers including M.D. Anderson, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Johns Hopkins, Stanford and the Mayo Clinic; and
  • The daVinci® Surgical System for robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy procedures, only the third such system in Missouri. Thanks to daVinci, Southeast can now offer men every treatment option available for the treatment of prostate cancer.

Inpatient care

The Hospital’s dedicated acute care oncology unit features an all-RN nursing staff specifically trained in the care of oncology patients and certified by the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) to administer chemotherapy. Many of the nurses are also certified oncology nurses, also through ONS. This certification is awarded following a rigorous written examination regarding the care of patients with cancer. Our inpatient oncology staff includes the only ONS approved chemotherapy and biotherapy instructor in southeast Missouri.

Outpatient services

A wide array of outpatient services are performed in our Infusion Services area including chemotherapy administration, blood transfusion, IV antibiotics, hydration therapy, injections and other specialty infusions. In addition, physicians routinely perform bone marrow biopsies, lumbar punctures, thoracentesis and paracentesis in the department. PICC line placements are performed by nurses in Infusion Services.

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