Cancer Care
Wheaton Franciscan Cancer Care – All Saints located on the Spring Street Campus in Racine –provides the region with the most advanced technology in cancer treatment, along with a staff that genuinely cares about each patient and family we serve. If you are from Racine or the surrounding area, you need look no further for outstanding cancer care.
In fact, All Saints was again surveyed in February 2007 by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and received a three-year approval with commendation in seven areas – which means All Saints’ program exceeded the national standard.
Our Services
- Oncology Nurse Certified (OCN) nurses
- Clinical Trials - for more than 20 years, All Saints has been involved with over 150 clinical trials with leading organizations including the National Cancer Institute, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, and the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group
- Leading-edge technology including:
- Image Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- PET/CT.
- Medical and Radiation Oncology
- Oncology Patient Navigation Program
- On-site Chemotherapy treatment with specially trained nurses.
- Support Groups and Classes.
Leading Edge Treatments
All Saints was one of the first in the area to offer the BiographTM PET/CT diagnostic imaging system, a breakthrough in cancer diagnosis that provides comprehensive data for the detection, staging and monitoring of cancer.
It was also the first private community cancer program in southeast Wisconsin to utilize IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy), one of the most advanced forms of radiation treatment available. For many years, All Saints has done prostate seed implants for the treatment of prostate cancer.
Our Expert Cancer Team
All Saints provides patients and families with a multidisciplinary approach to cancer treatment. Our team consists of physicians (oncology as well as the patient’s primary care physician and surgeon, if needed), nurses, counselors, radiation therapists, technologists, physicists, dosimetrists, dietitians, and spiritual care professionals who work together to provide the most advanced, comprehensive cancer care in the region so that patients can stay closer to home during their cancer care treatment.
Our Medical Oncologists:
Mark Choi, MD
Richard N. Odders, MD
Our Radiation Oncologists:
James Taylor, MD
Laura Ulmer, MD
Standards of Care
Our All Saints team of sub-specialists works together to provide a personal quality of care for our patients. We have not only developed treatment guidelines, but we review their implementation and hold each other accountable for following the standards of care.
We know that cancer touches the entire family and that physical, emotional and spiritual well being is an important part of any treatment plan. That’s why we offer expertise for pain control, rehabilitation, education, spiritual care, and other special features like massage services and support groups, and the Garden of Hope , which bring beauty and some tranquility to the treatment process.
MRT: Precise Radiation Treatment Wheaton Franciscan Cancer Care - All Saints is proud of our history of providing the most leading-edge cancer technology. That history was carried on when All Saints was the first private community cancer program in southeast Wisconsin to utilize IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy), one of the most advanced forms of radiation treatment available. With IMRT, radiation beams can be precisely focused to carefully target tumor cells without harming surrounding healthy tissue. IMRT offers a greater opportunity to completely eradicate the tumor, rather than simply causing a temporary regression. In addition, the technology enables clinicians to use radiation to treat areas that would have been considered too risky just a few years ago.
Biograph™ PET/CT Diagnostic Imaging System
All Saints was one of the first in the area to offer a revolutionary new diagnostic system in cancer diagnosis, the Biograph™ PET/CT diagnostic imaging system, which provides comprehensive data for the detection, staging and monitoring of cancer. This system combines the technology of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computed Tomography (CT) to create not merely a radiographic image of a patient, but a biograph – an image that records living tissues and life processes to be used for the detection, staging and monitoring of cancer. Information gathered in this manner allows for early, accurate tumor detection and localization, providing the physician with the comprehensive diagnostic data necessary to treat cancerous tumors more precisely, without risking healthy tissue.
Oncology Patient Navigator
The Wheaton Franciscan Cancer Care – All Saints Oncology Patient Navigation Program is here to help them through this time. The Patient Navigator will help to make sure they get the support they need. The goal is to make sure they get the best care possible and are satisfied with their health care experience at All Saints.
The program is available, at no additional cost, to Wheaton Franciscan Cancer Care – All Saints patients and families dealing with a diagnosis of cancer.
The Oncology Patient Navigator will be able to assist in:
- Guiding them through the health care system.
- Helping them to understand how to fill out insurance forms.
- Identifying possible ways to pay for health care if the person doesn’t have insurance.
- Working with the person and their health care providers to coordinate health care services.
- Accessing local resources and support
- Tracking the person’s appointments and assisting them with transportation, if needed.
- Communicating with the person’s caregivers.
- Helping the person to understand their diagnosis and treatment options.
Location/Who to Contact:
To find out more about this program, contact:
Rhonda Deneka, MSW
Oncology Patient Navigator
(262) 687-5037
3809 Spring Street, Racine, WI 53405
Wheaton Franciscan Cancer Care- All Saints
3809 Spring Street
Racine, WI 53405
(262) 687-5000