Inpatient Care Neurology Occupational Health Svc. A Comprehensive team of specialists Specialists in Cooper's Hematology and Medical Oncology Division treat patients with anemia, leukemia, lymphomas and bleeding disorders as well as benign and malignant tumors. Working with multidisciplinary teams as part of the Cooper Cancer Institute and with specialists in other disciplines, members of the division also focus their efforts on major programs in the treatment of breast, colorectal, and lung cancers. A comprehensive team consisting of physicians, nurses, and social workers offers patients physical and psychosocial support along with advanced care for hemophilia and other blood related disorders. These services offer single donor platelet collection, autologous blood donations as well as therapeutic apheresis.
Staff are available to assist in providing information on studies and inpatient accrual.
This research resource is designed to gather critical tissue resources needed to make progress in understanding breast cancer. Tumor tissue from cancer patients with a family history of the disease will be stored and characterized at the Coriell Institute and distributed to scientists worldwide studying breast cancer, molecular genetics, and cell biology. This program provides risk assessment and counseling as well as screening recommendations and long term follow-up to individuals who are at high risk for breast, ovarian, colon cancer or melanoma because of a family history of these diseases. The program is staffed by a geneticist, medical oncologist, nurse educator and genetic counselor. Multidisciplinary conferences are held on a regular basis.