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About Cancer Care at Jefferson Hospital
Accomplishments and Accolades
- The Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson is a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated clinical cancer center.
- Jefferson doctors are cited in “ Best Doctors in America” for cancer treatment.
- Jefferson’s Hereditary Cancer testing program is among the Delaware Valley’s most comprehensive.
- Jefferson is a Blue Distinction Center for Complex and Rare Cancers
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital has received a three-year approval with commendation for its cancer program from the
American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, its highest possible recognition. The Commission on Cancer approval is based on a number of factors, such as the ability
to provide comprehensive state-of-the-art services and equipment, a multidisciplinary, team approach for the coordination
of cancer care, a cancer data management system, or cancer registry, capable of recording and analyzing trends by primary
site, demographics, treatment and patient outcomes and lifetime follow-up and extent of disease analysis.
- Unraveling the mysteries of cancer, the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson is home to the 15th most cited researcher world-wide
in Biochemistry & Biology (see www.in-cites.com/nobel/2005-bio-top100.html).
- Vascular surgeons at the Jefferson Wound Care Center have achieved dramatic results using hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat chronic wounds resulting from acute arterial insufficiency,
osteomyelitis, necrotizing infection, compromised skin grafts and flaps, diabetic wounds of the lower extremity, paraplegia
and pressure ulcers, radiation treatment and non-healing surgical wounds.
- The Jefferson Breast Care Center received full accreditation by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers. Jefferson is one of thirty breast centers in the nation to be accredited by the Program.
- Currently, Jefferson Hospital’s Department of Radiology offers 10 high-field MRI units, five helical CT scanners, two open MRI units, three multi-slice CT scanners (which includes
two 16-detector scanners), a PET scanner and PET CT/MR Fusion, four all-digital angiographic suites, four fluoroscopy rooms,
30 ultrasound scanners, eight nuclear medicine cameras, 11 general radiographic rooms, five portable x-ray units, a polytomography
unit, eight mammography units, and one stereotactic core breast biopsy device.
- The Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine offers Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy (MBAT) groups for cancer patients. This program has been found to reduce distress and
improve quality of life in women and men with cancer. The program is part of a grant from the National Cancer Institute,
and is offered free to Jefferson cancer patients. The Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine offers Mindfulness-Based
Stress Reduction (MBSR) groups, a popular program that helps participants learn to reduce stress and enhance wellness. Patients
with a wide variety of illnesses, including cancer, have been helped by Jefferson’s MBSR program.
More accomplishments...
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By Richard G. Pestell, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Kimmel Cancer Center
