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Welcome to the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center on
the Johns Hopkins Bayview Campus.
>> Coming to the Kimmel Cancer Center on the Johns Hopkins
Bayview Campus, you will meet extra ordinary staff that
are extremely compassionate and love caring for their patients.
You walk into our clinic and you become a part of our family,
and we wanna take care of you and your family.
So that we can improve how you do, as well as help you and
your family through the treatments and
your journey through the cancer treatment.
>> There are a lot of great choices on where a patient
can get cancer care.
And, on an individual basis,
there's no one right answer on where to be.
Many of our patients come from from out of state.
And for some of our patients,
being close to home will be the right choice for them.
Other patients will say, I have one chance to beat this cancer,
and I don't wanna look back with second guesses,
wondering what could've been.
I wanna go to a place where I'm confident
that the people caring for me are the best that I can get.
>> This new facility significantly expands
the medical oncology services and
brings radiation oncology to the campus for the first time.
>> By bringing cancer doctors of
various specialties into one area for
our patients, we can put all of those key stakeholders together
to help our patients have the best chance of having a cure.
>> A specialized team of physicians, nurses,
and researchers have been brought together under one roof
to offer patients coordinated and compassionate care.
>> I am lucky to be surrounded by giants in the field,
not just physicians but support staff,
social workers, nutritionists, all of which are passionate
about delivering the care that is the best that we can.
In a crowded area, where there can be many choices on where to
get cancer care, some patients will choose to come here,
confident that they'll look back with a surety
that they got the best that they could.
>> Many types of cancer are treated at this location at
the Kimmel Cancer Center with a main focus on lung and
esophageal cancers and mesothelioma.
>> The treatment of cancer is complex and requires
the input of multiple experts and multiple specialists.
>> A multidisciplinary approach includes providers
from different specialties who work together
to create the best treatment plan for each patient.
>> They'll have a team of doctors working to help them
maximize the chance of having a cure.
>> We can have those experts sit in one room and
make a decision for a patient in one day, so that they can
come out of clinic that same day knowing exactly what the plan
will be for them and their treatment for the future.
>> The Kimmel Cancer Center is also taking steps
beyond treatment incorporating life saving research as well.
>> Cancer research equates to hope.
This is the hope that patients will live longer and
live better with their cancer and
hopefully be cured of their cancer as well.
>> Our focus will always be on providing the best care for
our patients.
So patients should know as they come here,
that part of the specialized care that they'll receive
will also focus on new therapies.
Therapies that they would get uniquely here at Hopkins.
This is part of what we're about.
Not just taking care of the patients in front of us but
finding new information out to take care of the patients
throughout cancer centers in the country in the years to come.
>> For patients with cancer,
the hope is their journey will be made easier by
the compassionate team at the Kimmel Cancer Center.
And this new building that houses 21 infusion bays
overlooking tranquil garden space, 20 clinical exam rooms,
a CT simulator, and a linear accelerator for
radiation treatment.
>> The real advantage is that our new center leverages
everything that Hopkins is about, and puts it in one space.
>> As a patient, and a family member,
I would want you to know that as you're coming in for
your care and coming with your loved one, we care about you.
And we want to take the best care of you as if
you would be one of our family members.