Our collaborative outlook with the University of Cambridge, Cancer Research UK and Macmillan enables us to bring together high-quality clinical care and treatment underpinned by world-class research.
Our collaborative outlook with the University of Cambridge, Cancer Research UK and Macmillan enables us to bring together high-quality clinical care and treatment underpinned by world-class research.
As well as being the local hospital for patients living in the Cambridge area, we function as a regional centre for rarer types of cancer. As such, we collaborate across the region as part of the East of England Cancer Alliance.
If you would like to see a little bit of where we work, click on the links below for a virtual 360-degree tour of our haematology and radiotherapy units.
Caring for our patients involves the expertise of a wide variety of motivated staff who are willing to learn and are adaptable. The way we work together, in a multidisciplinary team, is fundamental to the care we provide.
- Ward C9 – Teenage Cancer Trust Unit – Ward C9 has 8 inpatient beds and 4 day unit chairs providing cancer care and treatments to patients aged 14-24 in a purpose-built unit supported by the Teenage Cancer Trust.
- Ward C10 – Haematology – C10 is a 16-bed ward caring for patients undergoing autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplantation and CAR-T cell therapy, including complex treatments for their disease and side effects of treatment.
- Ward U3 – Haematology – U3 is a 30-bed ward caring for patients undergoing autologous stem cell transplantation, CAR-T cell therapy and complex treatments for their disease and the side effects of treatment.
- Ward D9 – Acute Oncology – D9 is a 33-bed ward, Patients are admitted for complications of their disease and/or treatment, palliation, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, including managing difficult and complicated discharges.
- Oncology Day Unit – The unit has 16 treatment spaces and delivers anti-cancer therapies and supportive treatments to patients including chemotherapy to patients with solid tumours.
- Haematology Day Unit – Recently relocated to a larger unit with 23 treatment spaces. Patients with haematological conditions and cancers receive treatments including chemotherapy and supportive therapies
- Apheresis – Patients undergo highly specialised procedures including plasma exchange, red cell exchange, ECP (extra–corpereal photopheresis) for a complication of stem cell transplantation, and stem cell harvests are performed
- Cancer Assessment Unit – This team is part of the wider Acute Oncology Service. Nurses triage, assess and treat patients known to cancer services.
We also care for patients who are receiving symptom control and palliative care and pride ourselves in caring for patients and families undergoing the most challenging of times. We will support your ongoing development to provide you with the skills required to care for patients undergoing complex cancer treatments.
