M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando is a cancer treatment facility in the United States.
Established in 1991, the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando is the first and largest affiliate of world-renowned The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center located in the Texas Medical Center section of Houston, Texas. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando is a wholly owned subsidiary of Orlando Health, a not-for-profit hospital system based in Orlando, FL. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando is one of the largest clinical and basic cancer research centers in the world, and is also one of the premier providers of cancer care in Florida, caring for more than 50,000 patients since 1991.
M. D. Anderson – Orlando utilizes multidisciplinary approach that creates teams of surgeons, medical and radiation oncologists, pathologists, radiologists and counselors that collaborate to provide seamless care from beginning to end. The relationship with M. D. Anderson in Houston allows for expert consultation of the pathology and confirmation of diagnoses and treatment. Telemedicine video conference technology links physicians at M. D. Anderson - Orlando with cancer specialists at M. D. Anderson in Houston to jointly determine the best course of treatment for the most difficult cancer cases. This allows for treatment of diseases that otherwise do not have an established standard of treatment. The oncologists, radiation oncologists and medical hematologists at M. D. Anderson-Orlando are dual credentialed, allowing them to serve on the medical staffs of both M. D. Anderson – Orlando and Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. This unique relationship allows the same state-of-the-art approach to pediatric cancer care that M. D. Anderson-Orlando is known for with adult cancer patients. M. D. Anderson-Orlando utilizes [...] edge technology and has been one of the first sites to offer stereotactic interstitial brachytherapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), Zevalin, the first radioimmunotherapy medication approved by the FDA to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, treatment with the Novalis® Shaped Beam Surgery and ToMoTherapy® HI-ART® treatment system, two of the most advanced radiation therapies available.
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando was originally known as the Orlando Cancer Center and in 1994 took on the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center name. The cancer center has small beginnings with only four medical oncologists, four oncologists and 75 employees in 1991. The facilities and treatment centers were spread throughout the campus of Orlando Regional Medical Center. Any patients requiring surgery had to be taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center. By 1992, the Center was included in the third annual best hospital survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report. That year the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center was also ranked as the best cancer in the nation. This article highlighted the unique relationship between the two cancer centers. Since 2003, the home of M. D. Anderson - Orlando has been the state-of-the-art Charles Lewis Pavilion- a 10-story, 220,000 square-foot structure, consisting of 60 private inpatient beds. The building is located on the downtown campus of Orland Health, and is connected to Orlando Regional Medical Center, allowing the facilities to share resources and transfer patients with ease.
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, in collaboration with M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, is among the largest clinical and basic cancer research centers in the world. The M. D. Anderson Cancer Research Institute (CRI) conducts both basic and highly sophisticated laboratory research. The CRI's goal is to discover more about what takes place to initiate cell transformation into malignant forms, and identify the many variables associated with hindering the growth of and [...] cancerous cells. The Cancer Research Institute also runs clinical trials that are designed to improve the ways that physicians detect and treat cancer, as well as discovering ways to reduce the side effects and improve patients' comfort and quality of life. Patients coming to M. D. Anderson-Orlando have access to treatments such as anti-cancer agents that are still being researched. M. D. Anderson - Orlando is one of the few U.S. cancer centers able to offer this [...]-edge treatment.
In 2009, M. D. Anderson-Orlando moved the Cancer Research Institute to a new 30,000 sq. foot facility located in the Lake Nona Medical City, home to the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (formerly the Burnham Institute for Medical Research), University of Central Florida College of Medicine, as well as future plans for a University of Florida research facility, the Nemours Children’s Hospital and a new VA Medical Center. The new facilities triple the amount of lab and work space that the CRI previously had access to, and will allow for expanded research capacity.
M. D. Anderson - Orlando specializes in treating cancer in the following areas:
- Breast Cancer
- Cancer Medicine
- Gastrointestinal Cancer
- Genitourinary Cancer
- Gynecologic Cancer
- Head and Neck Cancer
- Hematology
- Leukemia
- Lymphoma/Myeloma
- Melanoma/Sarcoma
- Neurologic Cancers
- Nuclear Medicine
- Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
- Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
- Thoracic Cancer
Orlando Health
Orlando Health is a $1.5 billion, private, not-for-profit hospital system based in Orlando, FL. Orlando Health’s network of community and specialty hospitals includes Orlando Regional Medical Center; Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies, Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, South Seminole Hospital, South Lake Hospital (50 percent partnership), St. Cloud Regional Medical Center (20 percent partnership) and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando – affiliate of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. Orlando Health is Central Florida’s fifth largest employer with nearly 14,000 employees and more than 2,000 affiliated physicians. Orlando Health possesses the area’s only Level One Trauma Centers for adults and pediatrics, specialty hospitals dedicated to children, women and babies and is statutory teaching hospital system.