At UMass Memorial Medical Center, our multidisciplinary team approach to your
cancer care sets us apart. Our Cancer Center involves specialists from various
areas who provide input to the treatment of your specific type of cancer. You
benefit by having a cancer team work together on your care to determine the best
possible treatment plan – and best result.
Each team also includes staff
members from palliative care and pain management, nursing, dietary, psychiatry,
health psychology, social work and, for pediatric patients, child life
specialists.
At UMass Memorial Medical Center, our 10 multidisciplinary
teams are:
- Breast cancer – Noninvasive and
invasive ductal and lobular cancer, inflammatory cancer, Paget’s disease
- Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers –
Cancers of the esophagus, pancreas, bile ducts, liver, colon and rectum, anus
and stomach
- Genitourinary (GU) cancers –
Cancers of the testes, kidney, bladder and prostate
- Gynecologic cancers – Cancers of
the reproductive system, including cervix cancer
- Head and Neck cancer – Cancers of
the face, nose, sinuses, ears, salivary glands, thyroid gland, parathyroid
glands, mouth, tongue, mandible (lower jaw), throat and larynx
- Leukemia and lymphoma –
Hematologic malignancies including leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease,
multiple myeloma and myelodysplasia
- Lung cancer/thoracic cancer–
Nonsmall cell lung carcinoma, small cell cancer (oat cell carcinoma), carcinoid
tumors, bronchoalveolar carcinoma, mesothelioma and metastatic cancers to the
chest
- Neuro-oncology – Primary and
metastatic brain cancers
- Palliative care – For all stages
of cancer care
- Pediatric cancer – All pediatric
blood disorders and solid tumor malignancies
- Skin cancer – Basal cell, squamous
cell and melanoma