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Established in 1985, Markey Cancer Center utilizes the resources of 28 departments, eight colleges and 150 faculty members throughout UK to further the prevention, treatment and cure of cancer.

Markey Cancer Center Complex

Markey Cancer Center is located north of UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital. The center is integrated with UK Hospital for patient care services and with the UK College of Medicine for academic/education, research and service programs. The center encompasses four individual facilities containing a total of approximately 250,000 square feet of space, although its programs reach well beyond the UK campus, extending throughout Kentucky and across twelve states of Appalachia and the Mid-South. The physical facilities of the center include the following:

Ben F. Roach Cancer Care Facility
The Roach Cancer Care Facility provides 53,000 square feet of space dedicated to the individualized care of cancer patients.

• 56 private inpatient rooms with satellite bases for all primary services
• Six rooms of the second floor are lead lined to isolate short term inpatient radioactive iodine treatments and patients requiring long term radiation implants
• Sixteen specialized rooms provide a dedicated blood and marrow transplant unit
• A linear accelerator and brachytherapy unit are located in the basement of this building
• Comprehensive radiation services, including a Gamma Knife, 2 Linear Accelerators, Tomo-therapy, and a CT Simulator, are located in the basement of this building.

What's inside: Patient care and cancer treatment facilities.

Programs/Uses: Inpatient and outpatient cancer care services, administrative office, radiation medicine, ovarian cancer screening, bone marrow transplant, and cancer-related research labs.

Features: This triangular setting is used successfully to meet the needs of various cancer-related programs. It is one of three facilities that encompass the Markey Cancer Center. The other two are the Davis-Mills Magnetic Resonance Imaging Spectroscopy Center and the Combs Research Building.

Dorothy Enslow Combs Cancer Research Facility
The Combs Cancer Research Building provides 29,500 square feet of state of the art laboratory, office and conference space and includes three core facilities:

• Macromolecular Structure Analysis
• NMR Spectroscopy
• Transgenic and Genetically Defined Mouse facilities

What's inside: 25 primary research laboratories dedicated to cancer research, including core facilities for high field NMR, DNA sequencing, protein sequencing, peptide synthesis and oligonucleotide synthesis.

Features: The typical research lab module is about 300 square feet excluding office space.

M. Margrite Davis and Ralph E. Mills Magnetic Imaging and Spectroscopy Center
The Davis-Mills Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Center (MRISC) houses instrumentation, research laboratories and support services for molecular, cellular, animal and human spectroscopic imaging, aiding the study of disease processes and evaluation of responses to treatment.

The office tower of the MRISC Building is integrated with the Cancer Facility for Women and provides clinical evaluation space and chemotherapy / infusion services, plus the headquarters for the Women's Health Initiative.

What's inside: MRI patient services.

Programs/Uses: The MRISC is an interdisciplinary center that promotes basic, applied, and clinical research in the biomedical sciences along with patient care in magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy.

Features: Along with the MRI and spectroscopy equipment for patient care, about 30,000 square feet of space is devoted to research and development of biomedical applications in magnetic resonance.

Marylou Whitney and John Hendrickson Cancer Facility for Women
The Whitney-Hendrickson Cancer Facility provides a focus for multidisciplinary ambulatory care for major cancers affecting women, including:

• gynecologic cancers (third floor)
• breast cancer (second floor)
• lung, hematologic, gastrointestinal and urologic cancers (first floor)

The combined Cancer Facility for Women and MRISC tower constitute a composite Ambulatory Care Pavilion addressing the majority of outpatient needs for cancer care services.

To make an appointment or find a physician, please call UK HealthCare at (859) 257-1000 or toll free (800) 333-8874.
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