Why Choose NorthShore University HealthSystem for Hematology Care?

The phrase “hematologic malignancy” typically raises many questions for patients and their loved ones. Though advocacy organizations have done much to raise awareness about breast cancer, prostate cancer and cancers of the lung, public understanding of cancers of the blood is lagging behind. Often, individuals who are diagnosed with hematologic malignancies, such as leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma, find that they become “students” of their own disease.

Fortunately, NorthShore University HealthSystem provides very good teachers. Our physician-researchers work to ensure that you understand why blood malignancies are treated in a different way than other cancers are.

Your health information will be evaluated by an entire team of specialists who meet to discuss your test results and your treatment options. This team may include physicians on faculty at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and the NorthShore University HealthSystem family of hospitals. Each patient is given the benefit of not one physician’s opinion, but many. Every option for treatment--as well as options available only through approved clinical trials--are considered by your team.

At any point during treatment, any member of your care team can use our electronic medical record system to check test results and confer with other specialists. The end of the “overstuffed manila folder” method of medical recordkeeping means that patients receive quick, reliable answers to their questions about tests or lab results.

Training Counts

Your hematology team at Kellogg Cancer Center is led by Lynne Kaminer, MD, Chair of the Virginia and James Cozad endowment for Hematology/Oncology, and David Grinblatt, MD. Beyond their credentialing by top training programs, each has authored multiple publications and is involved in clinical research. Our team continues to build upon their body of knowledge by working in concert with other researchers and specialists nationwide.

Evidence-Based Treatments

Therapies are offered by our hematologists, who work collaboratively with radiation oncologists, pathologists and pharmacists.