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CyberKnife Center of Chicago Hires Site Administrator
CyberKnife Center of Chicago has named Anne Dunlap as site administrator. She will oversee daily operations of the center, which is a service of Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare.
Dunlap has health care management experience in Chicago and throughout the Midwest. She recently served as home health care administrator for Heartland Home Care in Hillside, Ill.
A cum laude graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, Dunlap earned a bachelor’s degree in social work. Her community involvement includes serving as a mentor at Chicago’s Off the Street Club and as a volunteer for the Young Professionals Group of Friends to Help Battered Women and Children.
In partnership with Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare, Nuclear Oncology Medical Care and US Radiosurgery, CyberKnife Center of Chicago is located on EMHC’s Berteau Ave. campus and treats several different types of malignant and benign tumors noninvasively.
Lung Cancer Awareness Month A Time to Take Action
As a disease that annually takes the lives of more people than breast, prostate, colon and pancreatic cancers combined, lung cancer will kill more than 156,000 people in the United States this year, according to the American Cancer Society. Additionally, about a quarter of a million people will face a lung cancer diagnosis.
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month — a time to take action, quit smoking, educate loved ones and raise awareness for the leading cause of cancer deaths in men and women.
Prostate Cancer: Awareness Month a Time to Learn Risk Factors
One in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime while one in 36 men will die of the disease, which the American Cancer Society names as the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men. This year alone nearly 250,000 men will face a prostate cancer diagnosis.
In DuPage County, about 159 of every 100,000 men are affected, according to the National Cancer Institute.
CyberKnife Center of Chicago Supports 2011 ABTA Patient/Family Meeting
CyberKnife Center of Chicago recently participated in the American Brain Tumor Association’s 2011 Patient/Family Meeting. The event was held in Lincolnshire, Ill. during July 29 – 30, 2011. Susan Polier, who oversees operations at our facility, is pictured staffing an exhibition table at the event.
About 300 people were in attendance at the two-day meeting, including cancer survivors, patients, family members, medical professionals, researchers and donors from across the country. The participants connected with each other while learning about types of brain tumors, quality of life issues, research trends and treatment options. MORE →
CyberKnife Program to Continue at Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare’s Berteau Avenue Campus
CyberKnife Center of Chicago will continue to operate in its current location on Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare’s Berteau Avenue Campus. The health system’s new hospital opened on June 25.
While many hospital services have been relocated to the new campus at York Street and Roosevelt Road, the Cancer Center and CyberKnife Center of Chicago will remain on the Berteau Avenue Campus along with other services including, immediate care/occupational health, inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services, subacute rehabilitation (Transitional Care Center), cardiac rehabilitation and physical/occupational therapy. MORE →
Brain Tumor Awareness Month a time to learn about symptoms, treatments
More than 575 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with a primary or metastatic brain tumor each day. May is National Brain Tumor Awareness Month and was first established by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008. It is a time when many individuals and organizations focus on raising awareness of brain tumors, increasing funding for research and educating the public on symptoms and treatment options.
Nearly 600 diagnoses each day mean more than 210,000 people are diagnosed with a brain tumor each year, according to the National Brain Tumor Society. MORE →
CyberKnife Chicago at ALA Fight For Air Climb
CyberKnife Center of Chicago administrator, Susan Polier, staffed an information table at the American Lung Association’s Fight For Air Climb in Chicago on March 27, 2011.
The annual event involved over 1,200 participants who climbed the stairs of downtown Chicago’s Presidential Towers in support of someone with lung disease or as a memorial to a lost loved one. MORE →
CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System Treats Harmful Tumors Anywhere In The Body
New CyberKnife Center offers cancer treatment without surgery
By Tara S. Kerpelman Medill Reports, a news service of the Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University
CyberKnife Center of Chicago To House Next-Generation Robotic Surgery System
CyberKnife Center of Chicago uses a state-of-the-art robotic Radiosurgery system designed to treat cancerous and benign tumors and lesions in the head, neck and body with sub-millimeter accuracy and without incision or sedation. It is the first center in the Chicago area to house the next-generation CyberKnife System.
CyberKnife Center of Chicago, a service of Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, will begin treating patients in August.