Rita Axelrod, MD
Co-Director
Co-Director
Phone: 1-800-JEFF-NOW
Jefferson’s multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Center provides care for patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer and those
suspected of having lung cancer. The program provides consultation for the patient and recommendations to the personal or
primary-care physician. The program offers new or experimental therapies when conventional therapies have proven ineffective
or inappropriate.
The multidisciplinary team includes radiation and medical oncology specialists with extensive expertise in treating lung cancer,
as well as thoracic surgeons, pulmonary disease specialists, radiologists, nurses and social workers. The center is at the
forefront of using new drugs and new combinations of radiation therapy, surgery and chemotherapy to improve survival of patients
with every type of lung cancer. The center offers patients entry into national trials of new treatment regimens against lung
cancers.
