Expert Cancer Care, Close to Home

Welcome to the Bronson Battle Creek Cancer Care Center. If you or your loved one is fighting cancer, we know you’d travel the ends of the earth to find the best treatment, but thankfully you don’t have to. Bronson Battle Creek’s multispecialty team, comprehensive services and state-of-the-art equipment offer expert, compassionate care, in the comfort of your own community.

Why choose
Bronson Battle Creek?

National Leaders in Care

Bronson Battle Creek is Michigan’s only hospital in 2011 to win the Commission on Cancer’s Outstanding Achievement Award, and one of only 24 in the country to earn the this prestigious award three times in a row. Press Ganey Associates, the recognized leader in health care performance improvement, ranks our Cancer Care Center among the best in the U.S. for patient satisfaction.

Experience You Can Trust

If cancer is your opponent, you’ll want our heavyweight champion cancer fighters in your corner. Our multispecialty team of professionals has vast experience and stays informed of up-to-the-minute cancer research.

Cancer Team Members

Jeffery P.Letzer, DO

Randy Mudge, MD Medical Director, Radiation Oncology

Vincent S.Shen, MD

Stephen Smiley, MD Medical Director, Medical Oncology

Use our Find a Physician tool to explore cancer specialist profiles, or call us at (269) 245-8660 for medical oncology or (269) 245-8056 for radiation oncology.

Comprehensive Specialties

Our specialists offer a complete array of diagnosis and treatment services.

• Diagnostic Imaging
• Genetic Assessment
• Hematology    
• Medical Oncology & Chemotherapy  
• Pathology
• Radiation Oncology & Technology    
• Surgical Oncology     

Cancers We Treat

We treat many different types of cancer that can affect any part of the body from tissue, organs, blood and bone.  Each type of cancer is unique with its own causes, symptoms, and methods of treatment. We take an individualized, personalized approach and offer patients the best available treatments and compassionate care.

Integrative Support Services

We’re with you through your entire journey. From your initial treatment plan, to life-long follow-up, our supportive services help you focus on healing.

Leaders in Technology

• Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging system
  Bronson Battle Creek is southwest Michigan’s first hospital to use a shared PET, which provides accurate tumor detection and staging information, and delivers individually customized treatment options.
• 5-Day, Targeted Radiation Therapy
  This new Breast Cancer treatment limits radiation exposure to normal, healthy tissue and minimizes side effects. Therapy is often completed in just five days.
• BAT Ultrasound/Cone Beam
• Chemotherapy Infusion Center
• CT Simulation
• PET/CT 64 Slice
• Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
• Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
• Three Dimensional Conformal Radiation Therapy (3D-CRT)
• Prostate Seed Implant Radio-surgical Therapy
• Tumor Motion Compensating Therapy
• Radioactive Implant Treatment for gynecological tumors
• Radioisotope Therapy

Clinical Trials

Bronson Battle Creek is an active participant in the Grand Rapids Clinical Oncology Program (GRCOP) which is funded by the National Cancer Institute and a consortium of hospitals. Through clinical trials, BBC cancer patients can participate in cutting-edge treatment research in the quest to cure cancer.

Cancer clinical trials develop better ways of detecting, treating, and eventually preventing cancer. The trials test many types of treatment such as new drugs, new approaches to surgery or radiation therapy, new combinations of treatments, or new methods such as gene therapy. By taking part in a clinical trial, participants are among the first to receive new research treatments before they are widely available. 

Cancer Care Center Reports

• 2012 – Special focus on Lung Cancer
• 2011 - Special Focus on Uterine Cancer
  

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