Patient Care 

Cancer Center is unique in Southeastern Wisconsin

The Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center is dedicated to providing comprehensive cancer care, education, research and service. Established in 1984, the Cancer Center is the only academic center in Southeastern Wisconsin devoted to basic science and clinical cancer research. It is a primary source of new and potentially life-saving treatments.

• We have more than 200 members - physicians and scientists - involved in more than 140 clinical trials, giving their patients access to the most innovative diagnosis and treatment protocols available.
   
• Our investigators publish about 100 scientific papers annually in major medical journals.
   
• Divisions of the Cancer Center include the Froedtert & Medical College Cancer Center, the Midwest Children's Cancer Center at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, and cancer care and research programs at the Zablocki VA Medical Center.
   
• Other partners include the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry, based at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and the Blood Research Institute of the BloodCenter of Wisconsin.

Affiliated Hospitals

Cancer Center physicians provide services to patients at several affiliated hospitals in Southeastern Wisconsin.

• Adult patients are treated at the Froedtert & The Medical College Cancer Center at Froedtert Hospital, 9200 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53226. Phone: (414) 805-3000.
  
  More information about patient care programs is on Froedtert's Web site. Also see Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin's Cancer Center 2006 Special Report.
   

• Children are treated at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, 9000 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI. 53201. Phone: (414) 266-2000. More information about its patient cancer programs can be found at the hospital's Web site.

• Military veterans are treated at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, 5000 W. National Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53295. Phone: (414) 384-2000. More information is available at the VA Medical Center's Web site.

• Follow this link to who are members of the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center.

Program Rankings

The Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center has received the highest level of approval available as a Teaching Hospital Cancer Program. The Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons awarded the approval. Receiving approval indicates voluntary dedication to providing optimum care of cancer patients, including research and access to clinical trials.

Of its 250 member-institutions, the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group ranked the Medical College of Wisconsin 4th, ahead of several other widely known institutions, for the enrollment of patients in radiation therapy cancer clinical trials in 2006. This ranking is significant because it recognizes the Medical College of Wisconsin as a national leader in the availability and utilization of advanced clinical trials for patients with cancer.

In addition, the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, a multi-institutional cooperative organization with members in the US and Canada, has awarded the Medical College of Wisconsin an overall data quality score of 98% for 2006. This score is an objective assessment of data forms submitted by the Medical College of Wisconsin for patients treated in advanced clinical trials. It is testimony to the excellent care the Cancer Center provides to its patients.