Clinical Services

Primarily, radiation oncology clinical services are provided by Feinberg School of Medicine faculty members to patients at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH). Children are referred for treatment from Children's Memorial Hospital (CMH) as well.

The quality of our clinical care is high and our entire team focuses on patient care and satisfaction.

Types of treatment include radiotherapy, stereotactic radiosurgery, Gamma Knife surgery, total body irradiation (TBI) in bone marrow transplantation, brachytherapy, three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy, intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), and image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT).

Clinical faculty are performing research through National Institutes of Health (NIH) and drug company sponsored trials. In addition, our faculty are active in research through intramural studies and National Cooperative Clinical Trial Groups, such as the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG), Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG), Children's Oncology Group (COG), National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABBP), and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG).

Examples of intramural studies include: The use of IMRT in oropharyngeal dysfunction in head and neck cancer, which is funded by NIH, the use of the photon radiosurgery system for pediatric brain tumors, funded by the Medical Research Institute Council, and use of TBI in Hodgkin's disease for bone marrow transplantion patients.