NCI Launches a Pilot of its Community Cancer Centers Program to Bring Quality Cancer Care to All

by Barbara Kram, Editor | June 19, 2007

-- Billings Clinic, Billings, Mont. (Billings Clinic Cancer Center)
-- Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Conn. (Helen & Harry Gray Cancer Center)
-- St. Joseph's / Candler, Savannah, Ga. (Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion)
-- Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Baton Rouge, La. (Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center and Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center)

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-- Sanford USD Medical Center, Sioux Falls, S.D. (Sanford Cancer Center)
-- Spartanburg Regional Hospital, Spartanburg, S.C., (Gibbs Regional Cancer Center)
-- St. Joseph Hospital, Orange, Calif. (St. Joseph Hospital Cancer Center)
-- Christiana Hospital, Newark, Del. (Helen F. Graham Cancer Center at Christiana Care)
-- Ascension Health of St. Louis, Mo.
-- St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind. (St. Vincent Oncology Center)
-- Columbia St. Mary's, Milwaukee, Wis. (Columbia St. Mary's Cancer Center)
-- Brackenridge Hospital, Austin, Texas (Shivers Center)

Catholic Health Initiatives of Denver, Colo., will operate sites at:
-- Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Penrose Cancer Center)
-- St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson , Md. (St. Joseph Cancer Institute)
-- A coordinated regional program in Nebraska sponsored by Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney (Good Samaritan Cancer Center)
-- St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center in Lincoln (St. Elizabeth Cancer Center)
-- St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island (St. Francis Cancer Treatment Center).

NCCCP pilot sites will study how community hospitals nationwide could most effectively develop and implement a national database of voluntarily provided electronic medical records that would be accessible to cancer researchers. They will also study methods of expanding and standardizing the collection of blood and tissue specimens voluntarily obtained from patients for cancer research.

"It is becoming clear that one of the greatest determinants of cancer mortality in the years ahead will be access to care," said NCI Director John E. Niederhuber, M.D. "This program will succeed if it can bring the benefits of our latest science to people in the communities where they live."

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