Medical Oncology

Medical oncology and hematology services at the Tammy Walker Cancer Center are provided by William Cathcart-Rake, M.D., Larry Beck, M.D. and Muhammad Ahmed, M.D.

These services are located on the second floor of the cancer center, making the latest chemotherapeutic interventions available in a spacious, calming environment.

A large room with a view overlooking Santa Fe Avenue gives patients receiving intravenous chemotherapy a comfortable environment to relax while they receive treatment. Up to 18 patients can be accommodated at once.

Often cancer treatment involves chemotherapy as part of the multi-modality approach of cancer care. Some tumors are exquisitely sensitive to specialized drugs, which are designed to combat the cancer at its site or origin and possibly its roots of spread. In fact, in some specific cancers, it is the sole treatment, which can provide a curative result. In other cancers, chemotherapy is used to enhance the treatment with radiation or surgery or to make an unresectable tumor surgically approachable. This powerful tool has to be given often in a very precise and timely manner in conjunction with other prescribed modalities.