Physician Specialties
Our practice offers consultant and treatment services in both Oncology and Hematology. Our practice treats both solid tumors as well as hematologic malignancies. Our practice also contains a FACT-accredited outpatient stem cell transplant program located in our Fairfax office.
Medical Oncology
Medical Oncology is the treatment of cancer with medicine, such as chemotherapy, hormones, and analgesics. Medical oncologists coordinate and direct a patient’s medical care. Your medical oncologist will provide several of the following services:
- Educate patients on their form of cancer and stage development
- Explain patients’ treatment options, make recommendations, and work with patients to develop a customized treatment plan that is right for them
- Monitor the care and treatments patients receive
Through its physicians and highly skilled oncology clinical staff, Virginia Cancer Specialists offers quality care for patients battling all types of cancers.
The VCS team works with patients to ensure they are receiving the best, individualized treatment plan possible. We closely monitor each patient's progress and provide education for the various forms of cancer and the temporary side effects of chemotherapy.
Stem Cell Transplant
Our highly trained physicians offer a method of replacing immature blood-forming cells in the bone marrow that have been destroyed by drugs, radiation, or disease. Stem cells are injected into the patient and make healthy blood cells. A stem cell transplant may use a patient’s own stem cells that were saved before treatment or use stem cells donated by someone else -- a relative or other person.
Virginia Cancer Specialists offers transplant services at its Fairfax location. This program is a unique partnership between VCS and the Inova Fairfax Hospital. It was founded in 1989 and is one of the few programs in the country to offer comprehensive transplant services in a community setting and is the only program in the Washington D.C. area to offer a FACT accredited program.
Hematology
Virginia Cancer Specialists also provide hematology services which includes diseases related to blood and the generation of blood in the bone marrow. Hematology studies the red and white blood cells, their relative proportions and general cell health and the diseases that are caused by imbalances between them, notably leukemia, anemia, Hodgkin's disease, multiple myeloma and lymphoma.
