Brain and Spinal Cancer Care at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center

When you’re our patient, we don’t just treat your brain and spinal cancer – we treat you. You receive whole-person care for your body, mind and spirit. As part of that care, you may be treated by our world-class oncologists and neurosurgeons. They use state-of-the-art medical technology in advanced operating rooms, which few other hospitals offer.

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818-843-5111
Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Brain and Spinal Cancer Care at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center

When you’re our patient, we don’t just treat your brain and spinal cancer – we treat you. You receive whole-person care for your body, mind and spirit. As part of that care, you may be treated by our world-class oncologists and neurosurgeons. They use state-of-the-art medical technology in advanced operating rooms, which few other hospitals offer.

1976.7 miles away
Mon - Fri: 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

About Brain and Spinal Cancers

Brain and spinal cancers occur when masses or tumors made of cancer cells form within the brain or spinal cord. These growths may affect a person’s ability to think and move.

Our expert oncology team uses the most effective, leading-edge therapies to treat patients with brain or spinal cancer and its related conditions, including:

  • Brain tumors
  • Ear, nose and throat cancer
  • Head and neck cutaneous melanoma
  • HPV-associated malignancy
  • Parotid and salivary gland tumors
  • Spinal tumors

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.

Testing and Diagnostics

Your doctors use many diagnostic and prognostic tools to learn which therapies work best to treat your cancer. Taking into account factors specific to your case, like cancer type and the genetic or molecular profile of the tumor, this may include one or more of the following:

  • Biopsy
  • Fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy
  • MRI
  • PET/CT scan

Why Choose Us for Your Brain and Spinal Cancer Care?

As our patient, you have access to the best specialists and a full range of support services for you and your loved ones. We’re able to minimize the time between your diagnosis and treatment with coordinated, whole-person care that always puts you first.

All patients at our Roy and Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center get a personalized experience, including rooms set to your temperature, lighting and sound preferences.

Your personalized treatment plan depends on unique factors, from your diagnosis to your preferences. Your local oncologists meet regularly with other regional experts to discuss your case. These multidisciplinary tumor boards help us to be sure you’re getting the very best treatment, so you don’t have to visit another doctor or specialist yourself.

One thing most patients can count on is that cancer care takes a team! Your multidisciplinary team may include board-certified neurological oncologists and neurosurgeons. They pride themselves on using cutting-edge techniques when diagnosing and treating your brain or spinal cancer. If you need surgery as part of your treatment, you will be treated by a dual-fellowship-trained head and neck oncology and skull-base surgeon.

Cancer doesn’t discriminate, but access to great care hasn’t always been the same for everyone. At Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, we are deeply committed to making sure every patient we treat has access to the best care. As part of this commitment, we partner with several local community and health outreach programs, such as the All-Inclusive Community Health Center (AICHC), to increase access to health care and social services.

We value, respect and support the racial, ethnic, religious, spiritual, gender and sexual identities of each member of our diverse communities. In keeping with our Mission, Providence offers financial assistance programs that provide free and low-cost care to those who are eligible.

We are part of the Providence Cancer Institute in Los Angeles, which features world-class oncologists at six hospitals. As our patient, you have access to the largest community-based cancer network in the United States. This means your local cancer care team shares knowledge and experience with other world-class clinicians across 51 hospitals in seven states. The power of our network is one of the reasons more than 1,600 newly diagnosed cancer patients choose Saint Joseph Medical Center each year.

Providence is known for offering options – and hope – to patients seeking advanced therapies to treat their brain or spinal cancer. We partner with the Providence Research Center and other cancer research organizations such as the Pacific Neuroscience Institute. As our patient, you can participate in one of our many clinical trials. These include FDA-regulated trials to develop new therapies, such as one studying the effect of a medication on patients with recurrent brain tumors.

Awards and Accreditations

We are proud to see our dedication to our patients recognized by the most well-respected programs and institutions in the United States. Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center has achieved the following recognitions:

Supporting Our Cancer Patients

Part of treating your illness means supporting and empowering you as a whole person – body, mind and spirit. We provide you with a wide range of support services beyond conventional treatment to help you and your loved ones through your treatment journey as comfortably as possible. Depending on your personal needs, this may include one or more of the following:

  • Acupressure
  • Acupuncture
  • Art journaling
  • Beauty Bus partnership for haircuts, wigs and more
  • Counseling
  • Community health center partnerships
  • Genetic counseling
  • Hypnotherapy
  • Integrative medicine
  • Lymphedema services
  • Massage therapy
  • Nurse navigation
  • Nutrition services
  • On-demand video chat care with partner One Medical
  • Online patient education
  • Outpatient centers
  • Palliative care
  • Personal appearance center
  • Qigong
  • Research trials
  • Sound healing
  • Support groups
  • Survivorship programs
  • Women’s health services
  • Yoga
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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

Find Clinical Trials

Are you looking for a clinical trial for yourself or for a patient? We’d love to help you find one!

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