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SPOTLIGHT:
PUTTING
MARYLAND
Proton therapy is
now available in the
state of Maryland.
UM Greenebaum Comprehensive
Cancer Center earns the
National Cancer Institute's
highest designation
bone marrow transplant. A person with breast cancer may
be taking part in a clinical trial looking at a promising
new radiation treatment technology invented by researchers
at the University of Maryland. We're also focusing on cancer
prevention in our community and educating the next
generation of doctors and scientists.
"With fewer than 50 comprehensive cancer centers
throughout the United States, this new designation places
T
us in the very top tier of the most elite cancer centers in the
country," says Kevin Cullen, MD, the cancer center's director,
he word "cancer" comes from the Latin word for
who also serves as the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum
"crab." Cancer and crabs might seem like an
Distinguished Professor of Oncology at the University of
unlikely combination, although you may know the
Maryland School of Medicine. "Becoming an NCI Compre-
zodiac sign for cancer is a crab. At the University
hensive Cancer Center is a recognition of our hard work
of Maryland Medical Center, we think the connec-
and growth in research into understanding cancer better
tion makes sense because we are striving for our state to be
and finding ways to treat and prevent it," Dr. Cullen says. The
known for both our crabs and our cancer-fighting abilities.
cancer center has been an NCI-designated Cancer Center
NEW DESIGNATION
Recently, the National Cancer Institute designated the
since 2008. Now, a panel of experts has judged it as meeting
the qualifications of a Comprehensive Cancer Center.
What this designation means to the people of Maryland
University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum
is that the UMGCCC helps patients who have cancer today,
Cancer Center as a Comprehensive Cancer Center
develops prevention strategies to keep citizens from getting
(NCI-CCC). This top honor was earned because of the
cancer tomorrow, and comes up with new treatments and
everyday activities inside what is now known as the
therapies to help those who have cancer in the future.
University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum
Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC).
Here, teams of experts are helping patients of all ages
NEW TECHNOLOGY: A RAY OF HOPE
Another way in which we are building upon our reputation
battle cancer. A child could be receiving chemotherapy
in fighting cancer is with a brand-new proton center-the
while someone with leukemia may be recovering from a
only one in the Baltimore-Washington region. The Maryland
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