Cancer Care

Your Cancer Care

When you have a cancer diagnosis or a blood disorder, you want and deserve the best care, close to home.

We provide leading-edge technology and the most advanced treatments for fighting cancer and blood disorders while understanding and recognizing that having a cancer diagnosis can affect your emotional, spiritual and financial well-being in addition to your physical health.

Throughout our center, you'll find large windows and artwork inspired by nature and our beautiful state of Maine. In our infusion area, each bay features a heated massage reclining chair for your comfort, separate seating for your guest and a television.

Our onsite services include:

• Imaging with a new PET scanner;
• Imaging services;
• An onsite pharmacy with three full-time pharmacists (two board-certified oncology pharmacists);
• Onsite lab services that include a four-chair lab draw area staffed with RNs and phlebotomists to preform peripheral and port draws; and
• An Open Access Clinic with dedicated providers to provide supportive care for unscheduled urgent needs.

Our dedicated, compassionate staff care for more than 12 percent of Maine's cancer population and see more than 7,000 patients with a cancer diagnosis annually, including more than 1,200 newly diagnosed cases a year.

In addition to receiving expert clinical support from our doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses and other clinical staff, we provide compassionate and holistic services for our patients including counseling, spiritual support, help navigating financial issues, and other various services.

Cancers We Treat

We treat many types of cancer, including:

• Brain tumors (malignant and non-malignant)
• Breast
• Colorectal
• Gastrointestinal (GI)
• Genitourinary (including prostate, bladder, kidney, testicular and penile)
• Gynecological
• Head and neck
• Leukemia
• Lung
• Lymphoma
• Oral, Head and Neck
• Sarcoma
• Skin

Accreditations

You have the security of knowing our center is accredited by the Commission on Cancer and American College of Radiology (ACR). We were recertified by the ACR in 2020. Since 2010, the center also has been a Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI^®)-certified program by the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Quality Data

At MaineGeneral, we believe you should have accurate information to help you choose a health care provider or medical practice based on the quality of care you can expect to receive.

Click the Patient Experience button below for information about our level of care based on medical practice survey responses from patients.

Patient Experience