News & Breakthroughs at Siteman
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Clinical, In the Media
Siteman Cancer Center opens expanded St. Charles County facility
Siteman Cancer Center will open its newly expanded and renovated outpatient facility at Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital in St. Charles County on May 1. The expansion nearly doubles the facility’s size, to 37,000 square feet. With the larger capacity, additional physicians will be available to see patients in newly added exam and treatment rooms. The […]
Clinical
A complete toolkit for brain-tumor treatment
Every week, the brain tumor and neuro-oncology program at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine holds a tumor board meeting. Attending are specialists in the field of brain-tumor diagnosis and treatment: neurosurgeons, neuro-oncologists, neuro-radiation oncologists, endocrinologists and neuro-intensivists, as well as representatives from psychology, neurology, genetics, […]
Clinical
Prostate cancer detection made easier—and safer
Let’s say you’re a person with a prostate, and you’ve just had that gland checked with a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. Results show an elevated PSA level, which may or may not mean you have cancer. What do you do next? If you are being cared for by a Washington University urologic surgeon at Barnes-Jewish […]
Clinical, Research
Breast cancer vaccine shows promise in small clinical trial
A breast cancer vaccine developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is safe in patients with metastatic breast cancer, results of an early clinical trial indicate. Preliminary evidence also suggests that the vaccine primed the patients’ immune systems to attack tumor cells and helped slow the cancer’s progression. The study appears Dec. 1 […]
Clinical, In the Media
Siteman Cancer Center Offers Scarless Surgery for Benign or Cancerous Thyroid Conditions
An innovative procedure for patients with benign or cancerous thyroid conditions offers less, even zero, scarring at Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Washington University physicians at Siteman now offer scarless thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy procedures. The minimally invasive, scarless procedures provide an alternative to frontal […]