About the Institute

In February 2007, the ProMedica Cancer Institute publicly announced a $42 million commitment to cancer care that significantly enhanced cancer treatment and research options for residents of northwest Ohio. This announcement featured an affiliation with the nationally renowned Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute at the Detroit Medical Center. As a result of the collaboration with Karmanos, ProMedica medical teams and patients have access to advanced research and protocols, multidisciplinary approaches to treatment and educational opportunities. For more information about Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center, please visit www.karmanos.org.

The ProMedica Cancer Institute features:

• A new state-of-the-art Hickman Cancer Center on the Flower Hospital campus that offers convenient, comforting surroundings for patients to receive care.


• The launch of multidisciplinary cancer care teams to offer the most comprehensive diagnosis and treatment plan available.


• Digital mammography technology at ProMedica radiology facilities in every region. This comprehensive early-detection investment significantly improved the quality and accuracy of breast cancer screenings. Digital mammography offers more accurate results for women ago 50 or under and women with dense breast tissue. In addition, digital technology offers reduced exam times.


• Tomotherapy to deliver extremely precise radiation therapy to patients while protecting healthy tissue. Tomotherapy gives physicians the ability to verify tumors and adjust a patient’s position before treatment is given. Tomotherapy is available at the Flower Hospital campus, and is one of only three units in the state of Ohio. Trilogy Linear Accelerator and Stereotactic System, one of the latest advances in radiation therapy, is offered at Flower Hospital. ProMedica was the first health care system in Ohio to offer this state-of-the-art technology, which delivers higher doses of radiation to smaller areas over a shorter period of time and can be used to treat very small lesions and tumors that are close to vital structures – while avoiding or minimizing damage to the patient’s surrounding organs and healthy tissue.


• A second linear accelerator at Flower Hospital was upgraded in 2006 and includes a treatment planning system to provide custom radiation therapy programs.


• A permanent positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scanner, used primarily for diagnosing and staging cancers, on the Flower Hospital campus. Weekly PET/CT service is also provided at Bay Park Community Hospital, Defiance Regional Medical Center and Fostoria Community Hospital. This powerful diagnostic imaging tool provides exceptionally detailed images that can reveal the development of disease or tumors much sooner than other technologies.


• Ebeid Hospice Residence, a free-standing hospice care facility on the Flower Hospital campus that provides care for patients with later-stage cancer.