What to Expect      

As a patient at the Mercy Regional Cancer Center, you should expect honesty, compassion, experience, excellence and coordinated care in your treatment plan.

Some cancer patients describe their care journey as navigating a fragmented maze of uncoordinated services. A journey filled with anxieties, which become magnified while waiting for test results. A journey filled with confusion, which grows while listening to one doctor's opinion after another.  A journey filled with weariness, which occurs traveling from one appointment to the next at numerous locations in different parts of town, the state and beyond.

Mercy is leading the way towards a shift in care that is integrated, timely, and coordinated around the patients' and families' needs. Working together, teams of specialists, located in one place at one time provide a simple comprehensive care plan.

We are excited about our most innovative and integrative vision yet and believe patients in Eastern Iowa will welcome a "raising of the bar" in terms of convenience, efficiency and clinical outcomes as the curtain rises on a new era of healing at Mercy.

Detection, Diagnosis and Beyond

Each cancer diagnosis includes special circumstances and unique needs.  In order to detect and treat cancer appropriately, you can expect certain types of services including:

• Diagnostic testing where we use images to gain a clear understanding of the scope, type and location of cancer.
• Treatment which comes in many forms, depending on the type of cancer. Treatment may include radiation, chemotherapy, and beyond.
• Counseling may be offered in areas such as nutrition, for education on how to fuel your body's changing needs, as well as counseling to address the emotional toll cancer brings to some families.
• After cancer care, including support groups and wellness services, including Thrive Cancer Fitness & Wellness.