Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center

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Alvin J. Siteman
Cancer Center
Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center
Geography
Location St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Organization
Type Specialist
Affiliated university Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine
Services
Speciality Cancer
Public transit access Bus-logo.svg MetroBus
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At Central West End station
History
Opened1999;26 years ago (1999)
Links
Website www.siteman.wustl.edu
Lists Hospitals in Missouri

The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine is a cancer treatment, research and education institution with six locations in the St. Louis area. Siteman is the only cancer center in Missouri and within 240 miles of St. Louis to be designated a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). [1] Siteman is also the only area member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, [2] a nonprofit alliance of 32 cancer centers dedicated to improving the quality and effectiveness of cancer care. [3]

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Siteman treats more than 75,000 individual patients, including 12,000 newly diagnosed patients, every year. [4]

Locations

Siteman's main facility is at Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis’ Central West End neighborhood. In 2021, work began on a new main facility on the medical campus that is scheduled for completion in summer 2024. [5] Five other St. Louis-area sites offer specialized cancer care in suburban locations:

History and leadership

In 1999, Alvin J. and Ruth Siteman committed $35 million to the development of the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The commitment was the largest gift ever received by Barnes-Jewish and Washington University in support of cancer research, patient care and services, education and community outreach. [9]

Timothy Eberlein has been director of the center since its inception. [10] John DiPersio is deputy director. [11]

In 2001, the NCI designated Siteman as a Cancer Center, which signaled that the institution had demonstrated significant scope and quality in its cancer research programs. The designation came with $850,000 per year in federal research grants. [12] The NCI named Siteman a Comprehensive Cancer Center in 2005, recognizing its broad-based research, outreach and education activities, and awarded the center a five-year, $21 million support grant. [13] The NCI renewed the designation in 2010 and awarded another five-year grant, totaling $23 million. The grants fund programs and specialized services that promote multidisciplinary research, as well as shared scientific resources and seed awards that enable investigators to develop and pursue new research opportunities. [14]

Alvin J. Siteman announced in 2010 that he would donate $1 million annually to an endowment fund at the center to advance cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment programs that might not receive federal funding. [15]

Patient care and services

More than 350 Washington University research scientists and physicians provide inpatient and outpatient care at Siteman. [16] The center also offers patient and family support services, including discussion and education groups. [17]

In 2018, Siteman announced it would build a second proton therapy unit at its S. Lee Kling Proton Therapy Center. The first opened in late 2013. [18]

Research

Scientists and physicians affiliated with Siteman hold more than $145 million in cancer research and related training grants. The results of basic laboratory research are rapidly incorporated into treatment advances. This process is enhanced by patient access to more than 500 therapeutic clinical studies, [19] including many collaborative efforts with other leading cancer centers throughout the country. [20]

In 2013, three scientists affiliated with Siteman, Washington University School of Medicine and the McDonnell Genome Institute were included on the Thomson Reuters list of “Hottest Scientific Researchers of 2012”: Richard K. Wilson, Elaine Mardis, and Li Ding. The list recognized the 21 most-cited researchers of 2012. Robert Fulton, a fourth scientist from Washington University School of Medicine and the McDonnell Genome Institute, also made the list. [21]

Research advances

Researchers affiliated with Siteman and/or Washington University School of Medicine have pioneered important advances in cancer research, prevention, education and treatment. Highlights and ongoing studies include these projects:

2018 — Personalized brain cancer vaccines

2017 — CAR-T cell therapy and using Zika virus to fight brain cancer

2016 — Chemotherapy for brain tumors

2015 — Melanoma vaccine and urine test for kidney cancer

2014 — Breast cancer vaccine and cancer goggles

2013 — Endometrial cancer and leukemia

2012 — Leukemia, breast cancer research and cancer prevention

2011 — Blood-related cancers

2010 — Pediatric cancers

2008 — Genetic sequencing

2007 — Nanotechnology and radiation therapy

2006 — Photoacoustic imaging

2003 — Breast cancer

2001 — Imaging and the immune system's role in controlling cancer

1998 — Biopsies

1994 — Genetic screening test for thyroid cancer

1979 — Bone marrow transplants

Mid-1970s — Imaging

1954 — Growth factors and cancer

1946 — Radiocarbon in cancer research

1941 — Cyclotron

1933 — Lung cancer surgery and the disease's link to smoking

Cancer prevention and control

Siteman and Washington University School of Medicine are actively engaged in many projects to prevent cancer in the St. Louis region and across the United States. These efforts include:

Education and community outreach

In addition to treatment and research programs, Siteman is involved with community outreach, education and screening. Efforts include:

Siteman Cancer Network

In 2017, Siteman Cancer Center launched the Siteman Cancer Network, an affiliation with regional medical centers that is aimed at improving the health of individuals and communities through cancer research, treatment and prevention. Network members are Boone Hospital Center's Stewart Cancer Center in Columbia, Missouri, [69] Phelps Health's Delbert Day Cancer Institute in Rolla, Missouri, [70] Alton Memorial Hospital in Alton, Illinois [71] and Southern Illinois Healthcare in Carbondale, Illinois. [72]

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