Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Lisa Hyde-Barrett

Background

The Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is committed to its focus on patient care, basic and clinical research, prevention, education, outreach and training as an independent hospital and research institution. Rooted in Judaic tradition, Cedars-Sinai has earned its reputation from decades of dedication to its patients, scientific and medical innovation, and medical prognoses.

Mesothelioma Treatments

With research-based facilities, world-class medical researchers and physicians, and as the recipient of numerous grants to conduct oncology-based research, the Cedars-Sinai Cancer Center is proven to provide the latest research developments to provide improved cancer treatment options. The integrated research environment provides collaboration of laboratory scientists and physicians within clinical, translational, and prevention studies.

Radiation oncology, surgical oncology, clinical trials, chemotherapy, palliative care, state of the art diagnostics and imaging services, pathology, genetic counseling, nuclear medicine, nutrition and physical therapy, and comprehensive and preventive care are all options in the Cedars-Sinai Cancer Center cancer treatment program.

Additionally, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center offers one of the highest rates of success of lung transplants and lobectomies in the US. In 2012-2013, the US News and World Report ranked Cedars-Sinai as one of the US’s best hospitals in Pulmonology.

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Source: https://www.cedars-sinai.org/programs/cancer.html