Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., announced an academic affiliation agreement for cancer programs.
Under the affiliation, Baptist Cancer Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, will work together to expand clinical research and academic education opportunities. Baptist cancer patients will have increased access to VICC clinical research trials and genetic diagnostic tools, according to the release.
The goal of the affiliation is to enhance cancer care in the region, prevent more cancers and bring research discoveries and new treatments to cancer patients more quickly. Specific goals of the academic affiliation include the following:
• Joint clinical trials.
• Sharing of clinical pathways.
• Sharing of cancer tissue to help advance personalized, genomic-based therapy.
• Jointly held disease-specific conferences for physicians and staff.
• Research-based fellowship training programs in oncology subspecialties.
• Joint public education programs in cancer prevention, treatment and control.
• BMHCC's participation in National Comprehensive Cancer Network activities as a VICC sub-site.
• Partnership in grant applications for cancer research funding.
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Under the affiliation, Baptist Cancer Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, will work together to expand clinical research and academic education opportunities. Baptist cancer patients will have increased access to VICC clinical research trials and genetic diagnostic tools, according to the release.
The goal of the affiliation is to enhance cancer care in the region, prevent more cancers and bring research discoveries and new treatments to cancer patients more quickly. Specific goals of the academic affiliation include the following:
• Joint clinical trials.
• Sharing of clinical pathways.
• Sharing of cancer tissue to help advance personalized, genomic-based therapy.
• Jointly held disease-specific conferences for physicians and staff.
• Research-based fellowship training programs in oncology subspecialties.
• Joint public education programs in cancer prevention, treatment and control.
• BMHCC's participation in National Comprehensive Cancer Network activities as a VICC sub-site.
• Partnership in grant applications for cancer research funding.
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