The
Oncology Institute was created as part of the Loyola
University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine to provide
a structure to coordinate and integrate the development
of a truly multidisciplinary cancer research and clinical
program. Its directive was to develop a plan and program
for the establishment of a state-of-the-art Cancer Center
facility on the Loyola University Medical Center campus;
integrate the provision of Loyola's cancer clinical
services; and develop a nationally recognized basic
science and clinical research cancer program.
Our
investigators in clinical research have participated
in more than 200 studies since 1995 in the areas of
breast cancer, bone marrow transplantation, brain cancer,
gastrointestinal/colorectal cancer, genitourinary cancers,
gynecologic cancers, leukemia, lung cancer, lymphoma,
non-Hodgkin's disease, melanoma, multiple myeloma, head
and neck cancer and sarcoma.
