Thompson’s Terrific Tuesdays
Posted on June 21, 2017Busy schedules can make it difficult to schedule your annual mammogram. Thompson Comprehensive Breast Center wants to help! We will be staying open late on the following dates throughout the summer to offer you more convenient appointment times: June 27 July 11 July 25 August 8 October 10 The last appointment will be scheduled at […]
Read moreClinical trials participant hopes to help future cancer patients.
Posted on June 9, 2017To Help Someone Else During a breast self-exam, Wanda Blackburn detected a lump. She wasn’t shocked or afraid, her heart didn’t skip a beat and she didn’t cry. There was no strong family history of breast cancer and Blackburn felt okay. She went on about her life without giving it much thought until she […]
Read moreClinical Trials: Research for the Future of Cancer Treatment
Posted on June 9, 2017At Thompson Cancer Survival Center, oncologists and the clinical trials department work together to find suitable trials that could benefit patients here in East Tennessee. Clinical trials manager Jennifer England says patients are sometimes recommended by doctors and sometimes selected from research of medical files. “We then meet with eligible patients to discuss the trial,” […]
Read moreWelcome Sarah Harder, FNP-BC
Posted on April 21, 2017Sarah Harder, FNP-BC joins Thompson Oncology Group in Oak Ridge and Covenant Health, the region’s top-performing healthcare network.
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