Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center is one of only seven MD Anderson Cancer Center partners in the country and the only one in Louisiana. It joins a collaborative network of hospitals and health care systems dedicated to advancing MD Anderson’s mission to improve the quality and accessibility of cancer care and research. As such, Ochsner MD Anderson patients in southeastern Louisiana receive care based on the same protocols and practice standards provided at MD Anderson in Houston, Texas, and benefit from integration with its clinicians and researchers. Ochsner MD Anderson experts adhere to the philosophy, process, and guidelines of MD Anderson’s clinical leadership, and they provide a full range of multidisciplinary care options, including medical oncology, surgery, and radiation.
The program is accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and affiliated with one of five national accreditation programs for breast centers in the state of Louisiana. They are an established multidisciplinary clinic for breast, thoracic, GU, and upper and lower GI. They offer a full range of multidisciplinary care options including Medical Oncology, Surgery and Radiation. They currently have over 50 physicians in 18 different specialties that care for patients at St. Tammany Cancer Center.