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Expert Endocrine Tumor Cancer Care at Providence Saint John’s

Learning that you have endocrine tumors (thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pituitary, neuroendocrine) can be frightening and difficult to process. You may feel stressed or unable to handle everything right away. Our world-class cancer care specialists are experts in providing leading-edge treatment options for endocrine tumors and supporting you throughout your journey. These are some of the quality and effective treatments we provide surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and radioiodine therapy. You also have access to new therapies and clinical trials, so your treatment plan can be more advanced.

2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Ground Floor, Santa Monica, CA 90404
1988.0 miles away
310-582-7117

Expert Endocrine Tumor Cancer Care at Providence Saint John’s

Learning that you have endocrine tumors (thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pituitary, neuroendocrine) can be frightening and difficult to process. You may feel stressed or unable to handle everything right away. Our world-class cancer care specialists are experts in providing leading-edge treatment options for endocrine tumors and supporting you throughout your journey. These are some of the quality and effective treatments we provide surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and radioiodine therapy. You also have access to new therapies and clinical trials, so your treatment plan can be more advanced.

2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Ground Floor, Santa Monica, CA 90404
1988.0 miles away
310-582-7117

Personalized Treatment for Endocrine Tumors

Systemic therapies travel through the bloodstream and affect cells in other body parts. They are used for patients whose cancer has spread to other areas of the body or if there’s a high risk of spread. Sophisticated genetic analysis allows us to target therapies to specific DNA mutations that cause cancer cells to develop and grow. Systemic therapies include:

  • Chemotherapy
  • Clinical trials
  • Hormone therapy
  • Molecularly targeted therapy
  • Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs)

Surgical therapies involve an operation or procedure to remove cancer from the body. Surgery may be the main treatment for some invasive cancers, but it’s only one part of the entire treatment plan. Surgical therapies include:

  • Central neck dissection
  • Cricotracheal resection
  • Lateral neck dissection
  • Parathyroidectomy
  • Thyroid lobectomy
  • Total thyroidectomy
  • Tracheal resection

Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation from a source like X-rays or photons to kill cancer cells or shrink tumors. It may be part of a treatment plan that also includes systemic therapies and/or surgery. Radiation is sometimes used to help ease a patient’s pain or discomfort. Radiation therapies include:

  • Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3DCRT)

Meet the Team

At Providence, you'll have access to a vast network of dedicated and compassionate providers who offer personalized care by focusing on treatment, prevention and health education.

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Our Approach Conditions Research
Our Approach

With comprehensive services that include diagnostic evaluations and advanced cancer treatment, the Endocrine Tumor and Bone Disease Program provides an unparalleled level of compassionate and holistic care for cancer patients.

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Our Endocrine Program is staffed with cancer professionals and endocrine specialists committed to providing care that works with each patient’s specific conditions. This comprehensive approach to care is holistic, and focuses on helping patients manage their cancer in a comfortable environment. We offer same day evaluation and treatment planning, including state-of-the-art 3-D parathyroid imaging for parathyroid disease.

Saint John’s treats patients with even the most complex endocrine and adrenal cancers and conditions, including:

  • Thyroid cancer
  • Adrenal cancer
  • Thyroid nodules
  • Hypothyroidism
  • Hyperthyroidism
  • Hyperparathyroidism
  • Adrenal masses
  • Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma
  • Cushings syndrome
  • Pituitary disorders
  • Osteoporosis and other bone disorders

Learn more about endocrine tumor research at the Saint John's Cancer Institute

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Why Choose Us for Endocrine Cancer Care?

At Providence, we see the life in you. Together, let’s finish cancer – so you don’t have to miss any of life’s special moments.

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No two patients, or their treatment plans, are alike. This is why, at Providence, we take a highly personalized approach to your endocrine cancer care. You’ll experience this through our multidisciplinary tumor boards, where your oncology team collaborates with other cancer care experts about your specific diagnosis. We also offer a Providence Molecular Tumor Board, where we evaluate your genomic and clinical information to find the best genetically matched treatment for you. Your oncology team will work with you directly to design a treatment plan that fits your personal needs. It’s an approach that combines leading-edge treatment with the compassionate care Providence is known for. Why? Because we know this results in the best outcomes.

As a patient, you’ll be supported through your entire cancer journey by a multidisciplinary cancer care team. You’ll be treated by board-certified surgeons, otolaryngologists and endocrinologists. Some patients may require treatment by medical oncologists or radiation oncologists. If surgery is required, our world-class head and neck surgeons use the most advanced techniques, which may include robotics and minimally invasive procedures. It’s a team-based approach to endocrine cancer care. Your care team may include oncology nurse navigators and other cancer specialists. We also provide you and your family with a full range of support services well beyond conventional treatment – from genetic counseling and education to nutrition and pain management.

Learn more about the experts who make up our multidisciplinary cancer care teams.

Cancer doesn’t discriminate, but access to great endocrine cancer care hasn’t always been the same for everyone. At Providence, we are deeply committed to making sure every patient we treat has access to the best cancer care. We offer various location-specific services to help our patients receive equitable care, such as translation for non-English speaking patients, telehealth and transportation assistance. We value, respect and support the racial, ethnic, religious, gender, sexual and spiritual identities of each member of our diverse communities, and we welcome all patients, regardless of their ability to pay. We aim to make sure every patient is treated equally and with dignity – whoever you are, and wherever you're at.

As a patient at Providence, you have access to the largest community-based cancer network in the United States. Being part of a collaborative network means that your local endocrine cancer care team shares knowledge and experience with other world-class clinicians across 51 hospitals in seven states. The extent and power of our network is one of the reasons more than 1,500 new endocrine cancer patients, and 50,000 new cancer patients, choose Providence each year.

Providence is well known for offering options – and hope – to patients seeking the most advanced procedures and therapies to treat endocrine cancer.  As a patient, you have the opportunity to participate in one of our many cutting-edge clinical trials for endocrine cancers happening across the Providence network, including a new trial that is the first to study a targeted therapy combination for thyroid cancer.

The Power of Our Network

Part of the Providence Cancer Institute in Los Angeles

Our patients are the center of everything we do:

  • Our unique patient navigator program offers navigators specific to each cancer type to assist you throughout your cancer journey.
  • Our beautiful, modern hospitals are equipped with the latest technologies.
  • We also offer robust research labs not found in local, community-focused hospitals.

Learn more about the Providence Cancer Institute in Los Angeles

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