Our Mission, Vision & Strategic Plan

Mission

To prevent cancer in the community and transform cancer patient care through scientific discovery

Vision

World leaders in cancer care — one patient at a time

Values

As part of Siteman Cancer Center’s recognition of our first quarter-century, we are highlighting and reaffirming our commitment to the core values that have sustained our success since our founding:

• We deliver extraordinary and compassionate patient care enhanced by world-class cancer research and cancer prevention in the community.
• We maintain an environment where everyone feels they belong and can perform to their optimal level, as we develop tomorrow’s cures today.
• We hire, promote and pay based exclusively on merit and performance.
• We recognize the excellence and innovation that results from the varied perspectives of our faculty and staff.
• We are committed to a culture where all faculty, staff, trainees, patients and community partners feel respected and included.

In accordance with the law, Siteman Cancer Center does not discriminate in its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, disability or genetic information.

Strategic Plan

Siteman Cancer Center’s strategic plan unites Discovery and Community bringing together groundbreaking research and effective community outreach to improve patient care and eliminate cancer.

Join us in our mission to prevent cancer and transform the care of cancer patients through scientific discovery. Together, we can make a significant impact in the fight against cancer.

PATIENT CARE & OUTCOMES

Our goal is to eliminate and prevent cancer through world-class science. We are dedicated to providing the best patient care by combining cutting-edge research, new and innovative treatments, and compassionate patient-centered care focused on patients’ needs and desires.

BASIC RESEARCH

We are developing new and more effective cancer therapies by focusing on unlocking the mysteries that allow tumors to grow and resist treatment and how the body and the environment in which we live impact cancer development.

TRANSLATIONAL & CLINICAL RESEARCH

Our team strives to incorporate the latest scientific advances into innovative treatment trials and studies, ensuring that patients benefit from the newest and most effective cancer therapies available.

PREVENTION & CONTROL

We work hard to promote, develop, and put in place programs, policies, and changes in health care practice that lower the number of cancer cases, improve health outcomes and advocate for health across communities. Our prevention strategies are designed to promote healthy lifestyles to reduce cancer risk, to give people the information and skills to take steps to reduce risk, and to identify the steps people and health care providers can take to reduce cancer risk and improve health outcomes.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT

Learning from and working with our community partners, we promote access to prevention education and cancer screening tests across the cancer center’s outreach (catchment) area. We also work to better understand the needs of the community, and the barriers to health care access and health behaviors — which informs and fosters research within the cancer center.

TRAINING & EDUCATION

We invest in training, mentoring and supporting the next generations of cancer researchers and those in the cancer care workforce, including developing future leaders. We arrange training in cancer research as early as high school, extending to undergraduate college students, graduate and medical students, postdoctoral scholars and university faculty who are early in their careers.