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Cancer Therapy Center

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Almost everyone knows someone – a friend, relative, neighbor or co-worker – who has had cancer.  Cancer is a disease that touches many lives.  But thanks to continuing progress in medical research and technology, the outlook for cancer patients improves every day. 

If you have been diagnosed with cancer, it is our hope that you will find the following information helpful and reassuring.  If someone close to you has cancer, we hope that the information you find on this site will provide a source of support and courage.  We want you to remember that you are never alone.

FMH Regional Cancer Therapy Center

501 West Seventh Street
Frederick, MD 21701

Radiation Oncology        -240-566-4500
Outpatient I.V. Therapy - 301-694-5580

Located directly across the street from the Hospital, the 26,000 square foot FMH Regional Cancer Therapy Center houses the latest technology in Outpatient cancer therapy, offering state-of-the-art treatment in a pleasant, compassionate atmosphere.  Within the modern facility are hospital affiliated chemotherapy and radiation therapy programs and facilities for community outreach, patient education and support.  The cancer program also provides access to a wide variety of clinical cancer trials.  All of these services and support are close to home for cancer patients, their families and friends throughout Frederick County and the surrounding region. 

Frederick Memorial Hospital has a longstanding commitment to provide quality cancer care and to aid efforts to find a cure for the disease.   In 1976 the hospital established a cooperative cancer care clinic with Johns Hopkins Hospital.  Because there was no oncologist located in Frederick, Maryland at the time, a specialist from Johns Hopkins came one day each month to serve as a consultant.  The outpatient chemotherapy clinic was started one year later, and the cancer program has grown steadily ever since.

The Regional Cancer Therapy Center opened in 1989.  Since that time the cancer program has been ranked as one of the top 100 in the United States by Cancer Magazine.  In 2002, the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer recognized the cancer program as a Comprehensive Community Cancer Program, an honor only 22 percent of hospitals in the nation achieve.