Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center
When choosing an asbestos cancer treatment center, it is important to find a highly regarded clinic where the latest drugs are available. Although mesothelioma has become understood as a hazard of being exposed to asbestos, occurrence of the disease is still quite uncommon in the population at large; many health care professionals have never encountered a case of it. Finding a facility with up-to-date equipment and physicians who have current knowledge of asbestos-related diseases is consequently extremely important if you or someone in your family has any form of mesothelioma. In addition, it's also wise to select a clinic staffed by compassionate people who can explain your treatment alternatives and with whom you and your family are comfortable. Some areas of the country don't have specialized clinics for relatively uncommon disorders such as pericardial mesothelioma; if you live in such an area you might need to travel in order to obtain the highest chance of remission.
The Yale Cancer Center is one of thirty-nine Comprehensive Cancer Centers designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), which is the highest possible ranking by the National Cancer Institute. Led by Dr. Richard L. Edelson and a staff of physicians, nurses, and scientists, the center hosts has nearly a dozen multidisciplinary clinical programs including:
- Thoracic Oncology
- Leukemia
- Lymphoma
- Melanoma
- Head and Neck Cancers
- Prostate and Urologic Cancers
- Gastrointestinal Cancers
- Gynecologic Oncology
- Pediatric Oncology
- Breast Cancer
- Brain Tumor
- Melanoma
- Genetic Counseling
Mesothelioma patients receive comprehensive diagnosis, treatment, and counseling by physicians who also serve as Professors, Directors, and Surgeons. The staff offers a wide variety of treatment plans and take a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and staging.
Comprehensive treatment plans include chemotherapy, surgery or radiation, or a combination of two or even all three treatments in addition to monitoring, patients psychological support and follow-up treatments.
Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center has dozens of clinical trials available for cancer patients interested in advanced experimental treatment options. Currently, Yale Cancer Center has clinical trials available for the treatment of the following cancers:
- lung
- melanoma
- head and neck
- leukemia and lymphoma
- solid tumors
- brain, breast
- colorectal
- kidney
- gynecological
- liver
- prostate
- pancreas
Contact Information
333 Cedar Street
PO Box 208040
New Haven, CT 06520
Sources
Yale Cancer Center Website
http://yalecancercenter.org/