At The Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment, you'll receive the most advanced cancer care available. The cutting-edge facilities and programs at The Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment have allowed specially trained physicians on staff to perform research and discover new treatments and therapies for cancer.

• The Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment has received National Institutes of Health grants for its cord blood bank and cord blood transplant programs.
  
  
• The Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment offers the only bone marrow transplant program in Orange County that is a National Marrow Donor Program-approved site.
  
  
• St. Joseph Hospital was the first hospital in Orange County to offer a radiation program accredited by the American College of Radiology.
  
  
• The Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment is the only facility in Orange County with a completely integrated system for radiation therapy.
  
  
• More than a decade ago, St. Joseph Hospital performed the first outpatient bone marrow transplant in Orange County. The bone marrow transplant and hematopoietic stem cell transplant program hematopoietic continue to be one of only a few programs in the County to serve as a National Bone Marrow Donor Program Collection Center and Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Collection Center. The program also introduced the first bone marrow transplant support group in Southern California.
  
  
• The Melanoma Program at St. Joseph Hospital has participated in the Sunbelt Melanoma Trial, a multi-center trial that is examining the usefulness of treatment with interferon alfa-2b for patients whose melanoma has spread into the lymph nodes. In addition, St. Joseph Hospital physicians have developed new clinical trials that may offer medical breakthroughs in treating skin cancer. See clinical trial information for SWOG 4697 and SWOG S008.
  
  
• The Melanoma Program at St. Joseph Hospital conducts national clinical trials melanoma/clinicaltrials to develop advanced melanoma therapies. Among other recent studies, the Melanoma Program partnered with the University of California, San Francisco, in the National Melanoma Sentinel Lymph Node Data Acquisition Project to collect information on patients who have had sentinel lymph node dissections.