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3815 Highland Avenue
Downers Grove
Phone: 630/275-2300
Fax: 630/275-2390

 

Good Samaritan Cancer Care Center is a free-standing building on the hospital's campus at 3815 Highland Avenue in Downers Grove, a western suburb of Chicago. The Center's construction was completed in May of 2002.

Email: info@chicagocancer.org

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EQUIPMENT AND PROGRAMS

Our treatment equipment includes:

  •  A Siemens Primus linear accelerator: Dual energy accelerator with asymmetric and multi-leaf collimators.
  •  Multiple electron energies
  •  Portal imaging system
  •  IMPAC patient management / information system with electronic charting
  •  Guidant Galileo intravascular brachytherapy system

Treatment planning equipment includes:

  •  Simulator: GE Hi-Speed Advantage CT scanner CMS FOCUS 3-dimensional treatment planning system with IMRT

Special treatment programs:

  •  Intensity modulated radiation therapy
  •  Samarium-153 radioisotope injections
  •  Pediatric radiation therapy
  •  Strontium-89 radioisotope injections
  •  Coronary artery intravascular brachytherapy
  •  Prostate seed implant program using I-125 or Pd-103
  •  Low-dose-rate brachytherapy for gynecologic malignancies
  •  Tomotherapy

Visit the Good Samaritan Cancer Care Center website: http://www.advocatehealth.com/gsam/