Clinical Programs

			“ Individuals treated here are both partners and pioneers in our investigations.” - Ronald Levy, Chief, Division of Oncology

The Division is committed to providing innovative, timely, state-of-the art patient care. This commitment is reinforced in our teaching program by our full-time and adjunct clinical faculty members. Ongoing research supports this patient-doctor partnership.

Faculty and Patient Census

The Division has 22 clinical faculty members, 15 clinical fellows, and 22 clinical educators and adjunct clinical faculty engaged in clinical programs covering a broad range of modern cancer patient care and clinical research.  All clinical and adjunct faculty of the Division participate actively in the supervision of patient care.

Outpatient care and clinical investigations for ambulatory cancer patients are conducted at the Stanford Cancer Center, housed in the Stanford Advanced Medicine Center.  Inpatients receive care in the dedicated Oncology Service and in the Bone Marrow Transplant Service, which are located in the Stanford University Hospital, contiguous to the Medical Center. Clinical care is also provided at the Veterans’ Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) Medical Center in nearby Palo Alto.

There are approximately 200 new outpatient visits per month and 1100 returning patient visits per month, or a total of 15,700 patient visits per year, in the Cancer Center.  Faculty clinics emphasizing subspecialty or general oncology treat patients with a wide variety of cancers. Clinics are held Monday through Friday in the Stanford Cancer Center.  Combined modality clinics offer subspecialty care in head and neck cancer, Hodgkin’s disease, genitourinary cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, gynecologic cancer, lung cancer, and breast cancer. These clinics are attended by medical oncologists, hematologists, radiation therapists and surgeons. Outpatient clinics in general oncology are held twice weekly at the VAPAHCS.

Institutional Protocols

There are many institutional protocols representing the clinical research interests of the faculty. They can be viewed on the Stanford Cancer Center’s clinical trials website.

Stanford participates in these trial groups: the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG), the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Program (NSABP), the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG), and the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG), all of which offer a broad variety of Phase I–III clinical trials. Individualized treatment programs are devised for patients who are not eligible for research protocols or who decline participation.

New Clinical Facility Opened in 2004

The Stanford Cancer Center opened in early 2004. The building features procedure rooms, linear accelerator vaults, 54 exam rooms in six clinic modules, a mammography suite, 12 twenty-three hour beds, 55 treatment bays, and many more patient care services.

Physician Referrals

Physicians who wish to consult on or refer patients to the Oncology Service, should phone 650-723-7471 during business hours, or the 24/7 physicians' hotline at 1-800-756-5000.

All international patients are scheduled through International Medical Services (IMS). The patients or their physicians should contact IMS in the Stanford University Medical Center to arrange referrals. Call (650) 723-8561, check the IMS web site for a list of worldwide toll-free access numbers (scroll to the bottom of the page to find them), or email .)