Comprehensive Cancer Center
Why Be Treated at a Comprehensive Cancer Center?
The Comprehensive Cancer Center is proud to be among the elite group of cancer centers acknowledged as the nation’s leaders in the fight against cancer. The National Cancer Institute’s comprehensive designation is an assurance that our patients have access to the latest technologies, treatments, and research.
The Wake Forest Baptist Approach
At most medical centers, it can take weeks to see each of the physicians who will have a role in the patient’s care. We’ve developed a system to streamline the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of cancer patients by specialized teams of surgical, medical, and radiation oncologists as well as allied health care professionals.
Not every 16 year-old would embark on a huge undertaking like planning a benefit concert. But Megan Wright, a junior at Greensboro Day School, is not your typical teenager. The inspiration for the concert was her desire to help in her father’s battle with oral cancer.
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Researchers at WFUBMC and colleagues have identified the first genetic variant associated with aggressive prostate cancer.
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The Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has been awarded a grant from the National Cancer Institute to partner with community cancer centers across the country to improve cancer-related health care disparities in underserved, disadvantaged and uninsured populations.
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In new animal research done by investigators at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, scientists have discovered a treatment effective in mice at blocking the growth and shrinking the size of lung cancer tumors, one of the leading causes of cancer death in the world.
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