Harry Long, Scott Okuno and Louis Letendre, all Mayo Clinic physicians with expertise in oncology and hematology, will alternate seeing patients once a week. The Mayo Clinic physicians will provide oncology and hematology treatment for hematologic disorders and all types of solid malignancies including cancers of the lung, breast and colon. Patients will benefit from having more convenient access to resources offered by Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic oncologists will prescribe chemotherapy treatment and perform bone marrow aspirations and biopsies to patients at Naeve Hospital, also part of Mayo Health System. Aspirations withdraw or suction bone marrow fluid.
Biopsies remove bone marrow for examination.
We look forward to working closely with Albert Lea Clinic physicians, discussing the latest and most effective treatments to cancer patients. Mayo Clinic oncologists and hematologists bring with them experience and access to new, highly specialized oncology treatments. Examples include use of the gamma knife, intraoperative radiation therapy and experimental chemotherapies. Dr. Long has been an oncologist and hematologist at Mayo Clinic since 1981. He attended medical school at Temple University and received specialized hematology and oncology training at Philadelphia Navy Regional Medical Center.