Cancer Care

Cancer care at Marlborough Hospital includes surgical procedures and chemotherapy treatments. The hospital's oncology team is comprised of specialists with advanced clinical knowledge who provide excellent patient-centered care.

Expanding Cancer Care Close to Home

Bringing a “Beacon of Hope” to the MetroWest Region 
and the 495 Corridor

Cancer Pavilion night exterior

The new UMass Memorial Cancer Center at Marlborough Hospital, slated to open in September 2013, expands the UMass Memorial Health Care Cancer Center of Excellence by offering a choice for advanced cancer care close to home. Combining the resources of our member and affiliated community hospitals and our teaching and research partner, (the University of Massachusetts Medical School), our new Cancer Center brings complete, multi-specialty care to our patients. With easy access to advanced care, patients and their families can focus on recovering and getting back to the lives they knew before cancer.

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The hospital's Hematology/Oncology Clinic allows patients to receive chemotherapy treatments and related services in a local, community hospital setting. The clinic utilizes a multidisciplinary team approach to treating cancer. A patient's care team consists of his/her own oncologist or oncologist/hematologist and other cancer specialists, including certified oncology nurses and nutritionists.

Surgeons at Marlborough Hospital also provide a wide range of surgical services, including bone marrow biopsies for the benefit of cancer patients.

The hospital Hematology/Oncology Clinic provides treatments for the following types of cancer:

  • Bone
  • Breast
  • Gastrointestinal
  • Genitourinary
  • Gynecologic
  • Head and neck
  • Hematologic disorders and malignancies
  • Lung
  • Skin
  • Soft tissue

As a member of UMass Memorial Health Care, Marlborough Hospital patients have convenient access to UMass Memorial Cancer Center. This ensures close coordination of a patient's care with a renowned cancer center that provides advanced radiation treatments, bone marrow transplants, PET (positron emission tomography) scanning and the latest clinical trials.