Director: Robert Chapman, M.D. Josephine Ford Cancer Center Division Head of Hematology/Oncology
The Josephine Ford Cancer Center at Henry Ford brings together the brightest minds in medical care and research to ensure patients receive the best and latest treatments in battling their cancer.
The cancer center is an international leader in the research, detection and treatment of cancer. Our multidisciplinary program provides patients and their families with everything needed to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.
Our expertise has touched lives beyond southeast Michigan and the Midwest with patients traveling from as far as Antarctica to receive care from Henry Ford physicians. In fact, physicians from around the world now offer diagnostic and treatment methods that were pioneered here.
Congratulations to the Henry Ford Medical Oncology and Radiation Oncology departments for their outstanding patient satisfaction scores in 2008. Both ranked in the 99th percentile of comparable hospitals nationwide.
First in the world to use sterotactic radiosurgery on spine tumors
Henry Ford physicians have treated more than 2,000 spine tumor cases, using stereotactic radiosurgery, making our experience among the largest in the world
First in Michigan to use the sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer patients, giving women better treatment and faster recoveries
Perfected the world famous robotic prostatectomies for prostate cancer patients
Performed nearly 4,000 robotic prostatectomies, making Henry Ford's experience the largest and most advanced in the world
First in Michigan and one of only nine medical institutions in the country to be selected as part of a National Cancer Institute funded brain tumor consortium.
Patients will find:
Nurse coordinators who help schedule appointments, lab work and tests as well as educate patients and answer their questions.
Ten weekly cancer conferences where individual cases are discussed among multiple cancer specialists and a treatment is decided, which is entered into the patient's electronic medical record
Clinics where patients meet multiple specialists who will discuss treatment options, all in one day
Access to more than 200 national clinical trials, including Phase 1 trials (A phase 1 clinical trial is the first step in testing a new approach in people. Usually a small number of patients are enrolled and they are offered at a limited number of locations.)
Treatment available at multiple locations - Detroit, Dearborn, West Bloomfield, Brownstown, Clinton Township and Grosse Pointe
State of the art technology and treatment protocols
