Our Treatment Approach
As a highly specialized center within Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center's Center for Hematologic Oncology, the Adult Leukemia Program focuses on the distinct needs of leukemia patients. Our center is one of the most experienced leukemia centers in the nation, seeing a high volume of patients for consultations and treatment, and offering many clinical trials. This expertise supports our ability to treat complex cases for both newly diagnosed and relapsed/refractory patients.
Your care will involve the latest treatments currently available, including the opportunity to participate in clinical trials of new therapies based on research in our laboratories and elsewhere in the field of leukemia treatment.
We take a very personalized approach to your care. Using the most advanced sequencing techniques, we identify the mutations specific to your disease in order to plan the best treatment for you and identify if a clinical trial may be appropriate. With the Rapid Heme Panel, we get these results back in real time so we can quickly develop your treatment plan and start therapy.
A Team of Experts
You receive world-class care from specialists with years of expertise in caring for adults with AML. These experts, including hematologists/oncologists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and infusion room nurses, manage your care as a team in order to decide what approach will best treat your condition at each stage. We work closely with our transplant service team when patients require bone marrow/stem cell transplantation to ensure early referral for transplant evaluation. We have extensive experience in standard and emerging therapies, and in monitoring the disease at a molecular level to ensure that your care plan offers the best possible outcomes.
We view every patient as an individual with unique needs and expectations. We take time to involve you and your family in each step of the treatment process. As you go through treatment, you and your family will have access to a wide range of support resources such as nutrition, social work, geriatrics, Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living, Adolescent and Young Adult Program, Older Adult Hematologic Malignancies Program, and survivorship.