Medical oncology focuses on the treatment of cancer with medicine, including chemotherapy.  Surgical oncology concentrates on the surgical aspects of cancer including biopsy, staging and surgical resection of malignancies.

Emory Crawford Long Hospital medical and surgical oncologists have expertise in a complete range of cancer treatments including innovative drug therapies and state-of-the-art surgical techniques.  Surgical techniques for the treatment of cancers involve both traditional surgery and newer methods such as Radiofrequency Ablation, which uses concentrated radiation therapy to cause a tumor to shrink over time.  This method has proven to be especially effective in the treatment of liver cancer.

Our specialists are among the nation?s leaders in creating groundbreaking treatments for cancer, providing multi-modality cancer care developed through years of training and academic research.

Cancers our medical and surgical oncologists treat include but are not restricted to:

• Breast cancer
• Colon cancer
• Head and neck carcinoma
• Liver cancer
• Melanoma
• Pancreatic cancer
• Rectal cancer
• Sarcoma
• Skin cancer

Our goal is to improve cancer cure rates and to minimize the effects of therapies that are used on patients to treat their diseases. 

For more information about Emory Crawford Long Hopsital's Medical and Surgical Oncology services or physicians, please call 404-778-2000.