Choosing Columbia for Leukemia Care
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From the moment you arrive at Columbia, our team is focused on understanding your unique needs and guiding you through every step of your leukemia diagnosis and treatment.
Here, you will find exceptional care that is collaborative, compassionate, and driven by the latest medical advances happening at Columbia.
As part of a top hospital and nationally ranked research center, we continue to shape the future of leukemia treatment through our world-class expertise and clinical care.
Our approach and expertise
At Columbia, you’ll be cared for by a team of specialists across all cancer types—along with experts in diagnosis, radiology, nursing, and stem cell and bone marrow transplants—working together to provide a complete diagnosis and a personalized treatment plan that supports every part of your health and well-being.
Advanced, personalized treatment options
Whether your leukemia is slow-growing or needs immediate care, we focus on giving you access to the newest treatment options. We work with you to build your best care plan, making sure that it aligns with your values and lifestyle.
Depending on your treatment options, this may include genomic testing to better understand your specific type of leukemia, allogenic stem cell transplants performed by our highly experienced transplant specialists, or modern cell-based therapies.
Our status as a Center of Excellence for CAR T-cell therapy allows our patients to benefit from this innovative therapy that helps your immune system remove leukemia cells more effectively.
Through our wide variety of leukemia clinical trials you will have access to new and potentially more successful treatments beyond what is currently available at other medical centers.
Leading expertise in leukemia care and research
As a National Cancer Institute–designated Comprehensive Cancer Center we have expertise in understanding how leukemia presents in different patients. We are pioneering research into leukemia’s origins, the micro-environment in which abnormal cells first begin to grow and identifying genetic mutations that drive leukemia.
This knowledge helps us personalize care for every stage and type of leukemia—and find potential cures for all.
Comprehensive patient support services
Our supportive care staff works closely with you to provide a number of services that can help enhance your quality of life and overall well-being through:
- Integrative care, including guidance on exercise, lifestyle, diet, and nutrition.
- Emotional support, such as counseling and support groups.
- Pain management, to help you stay comfortable during treatment.
Your leukemia care team at Columbia
Our collaborative approach to leukemia care means you will have the full power of Columbia specialists in oncology, hematology, translational science, radiology, prognostic testing, nursing, and more.
Depending on your treatment needs and personal health goals, you care team may include:
- Hematologist/oncologist, who specializes in blood diseases.
- Bone marrow and stem cell transplant specialist, a doctor who specializes in these complex procedures.
- Pathologist, who examines tissue and fluid to look for changes in cells in order to classify a tumor’s stage and look for markers that will help your care team determine the best course of treatment for you.
- Cytogeneticist, a specialist who looks for gene mutations and other changes in your cells.
- Oncology nurses and nurse practitioners, who provide hands-on medical and supportive care along your journey. Nurse navigators may also help you through specific processes, such as enrolling in a clinical trial.
- Palliative care specialists, who are experts in reducing symptoms like nausea and pain.
- Social workers, who can help you find resources in the community and provide emotional support.
- Integrative health practitioners, including reiki, massage, acupuncture, yoga therapy, meditation, and more, to help you deal with the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of cancer treatment and survivorship.
- Nutritionists, to help you create and follow a plan that will support the healing your body must do during and after cancer treatment.
- Mental health counselors, to help you and your loved ones cope with cancer diagnosis, treatment and survival.
- Spiritual practitioners, multifaith chaplains who can help with your religious, spiritual, and emotional needs and help you make decisions, participate in religious rituals, and more.