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As a leader in cancer research, Karmanos is able to offer patients access to innovative treatments and clinical trials that are often times not available anywhere else.
To offer hope and longer life to patients with all types of cancer, Karmanos offers the latest types of therapy through our clinical trials program. Through clinical trials, we are creating new knowledge about how therapies fight cancer and provide national leadership in testing these new therapies.
We understand that cancer is a complex disease that demands complex care. We provide each patient with a dynamic, carefully constructed treatment plan focused on their specific cancer and their unique needs.
We listen to you to design a plan that provides you with respect, compassionate care and is responsive to your emotional and practical concerns.
Hour Detroit’s 2024 Top Docs List is out; over 50 physicians from the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute are listed. Each year, Hour Detroit Magazine puts out an online peer-to-peer review survey conducted by Professional Research Services (PRS) to determine the top physicians in southeastern Michigan. Participating physicians in Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw, and Wayne Counties nominate the best doctors in each field. This year’s list also includes a feature with Elisabeth...
Radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) is a revolutionary treatment that targets metastasized tumors at the cellular level, reducing radiation exposure to normal, healthy tissue and reducing significant side effects – a possibility that occurs with conventional external radiation therapies. “RPT uses radioisotope therapy in the process of delivering the radiation intravenously to cancer cells by adding radioactive material, or radionuclides, to proteins that bind with the receptors on the cancer cells, destr...
O’Laya Rodgers probably was the most excited teenager to enter Madison High School this fall. She had to take off a year and a half of school as she battled bone cancer. Now, she’s looking forward to prom and graduation. While Rodgers was celebrating her 16 th birthday, a mass in her left knee changed her life. Two months later, during her sophomore year, she was diagnosed with sarcoma of her bone and started chemotherapy within days. Then radiation therapy was added. Later, she had a distal femoral rep...