Welcome to St. Francis Cancer Center
A diagnosis of cancer affects all areas of your life.
Cancer doesn’t discriminate against age, race, or gender. For those facing these battles, St. Francis believes that treatment goes well beyond medical care – which is why we treat the spiritual, emotional and physical whole being. Our Cancer Center offers three convenient locations in Beech Grove, Indianapolis or Mooresville.
While you're learning to cope with and accept your diagnosis, it's important for you to have access to information and support. That’s why your team of physician specialists will develop a customized plan for your care.
Our Cancer Centers of Excellence in breast, colorectal or lung, offer a multidisciplinary approach to care and offer Nurse Navigators along the way (see side bar). All our patients have access to a powerful cancer fighting team by their side comprised of board certified physicians, nurses, medical and support staff.
St. Francis Cancer Center offers leading-edge cancer care including the first to offer TomoTherapy® to Central Indiana patients, to Indiana Blood and Marrow Transplantation, one of only two full service providers of bone marrow transplants in Indiana. Our Cancer Research Foundation offers more than 50 clinical trials led by leading pharmaceutical companies and entities such as the National Cancer Institute.
Don’t let cancer define who you are. You can fight back and we’re here to help.
St. Francis physician encourages colorectal cancer screening
Colorectal cancer may not be on your short list of great conversation topics. But in the end, discussing how to screen for the disease with your family doctor could be a lifesaving decision.
That’s because testing can find precancerous growths, or polyps, which doctors can remove. And testing can detect cancer before any of its symptoms emerge.
“Colon cancer screening with colonoscopy is a safe, mostly painless, and potentially lifesaving procedure that should be performed on any person age 50 or older, regardless of whether or not they have symptoms or problems,” said Michael Morelli, M.D., director of the St. Francis Colorectal Center of Excellence. “This should be done at a younger age if there is a significant family history of colon polyps or cancer in the family especially first degree relatives.”
The American Cancer Society estimates that as many as 146,000 new cases will emerge in 2010.
“Tens of thousands of lives could be saved each year if every American were tested as recommended,” said Morelli.
For more information about colorectal cancer prevention, screening and treatments at St. Francis, call our Colorectal Nurse Navigator Karen Norris at (317) 782-7145 or visit here.
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