Patient Care

Our physicians and care teams coordinate with colleagues at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Georgia's NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, to provide a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach for caring of patients with a full spectrum of malignant and benign tumors. In 2020, our department provided care for more than 4,200 patients while performing more than 69,300 individual radiation treatments.

Our patient care teams include radiation oncologists, medical assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and radiation therapists with assistance from physicists and dosimetrists working behind the scenes. We also have social workers, nutritionists, and others in roles to provide support and resources designed to help patients and families before, during and after cancer treatment.

Along with standard of care, our department is actively involved in clinical research providing patients access to clinical trials for a variety of cancers.

We currently operate at the following Emory Healthcare and affiliated locations across metro Atlanta:

• Emory University Hospital
• Winship Cancer Institute at Emory Midtown
• Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital
• Emory Proton Therapy Center
• Emory Decatur Hospital
• Loughlin Radiation Oncology Center at Grady Memorial Hospital
• Atlanta VA Medical Center

We are committed to providing the latest equipment and treatment techniques in order to offer highly individualized treatment for our patients including:

• Proton therapy
• Brachytherapy
• Gamma Knife radiosurgery
• External bean radiation therapy
• Stereotactic radiosurgery
• Stereotactic body radiation therapy
• Total body irradiation
• Total skin electron beam therapy
• CT Simulation