About the Charles and Mimi Osborn Cancer Center

The Charles and Mimi Osborn Cancer Center at Baptist Health Louisville is an advanced facility dedicated to providing leading cancer treatment and comprehensive patient support. Our renovated center includes specialized medical oncology offices, exam rooms, and an upgraded outpatient infusion center, where over 14,000 chemotherapy infusions are administered each year.

Our team of multidisciplinary specialists will provide you with care and compassion throughout your healthcare journey. Breast cancer is the most common cancer for women in the U.S. and affects thousands of Kentuckians each year and lung cancer is one of Kentucky’s leading types of cancer, affecting millions of Kentuckians each year.

Baptist Health is here to provide you with the best treatment available. We take many factors into account when outlining a personalized treatment plan for a patient. This includes the type and stage of the cancer, its location, and your overall health. Talk with your Baptist Health provider about your specific condition and what it means for you.

Services and Treatments Offered at the Charles and Mimi Osborn Cancer Center

Treatments

Surgery

Depending on your individual cancer and overall health, your treatment plan might include surgery. The size and location of your tumor in the breast and status of your lymph nodes will determine the type of procedure your care team recommends.

Surgical procedures for breast cancer can include:

• Lumpectomy (or breast conservation therapy).
• Total, skin-sparing or nipple-sparing mastectomy.
• Sentinel lymph node biopsy.
• Axillary dissection.
• Options for post-mastectomy reconstruction or oncoplastic closure by one of our plastic surgeons.

Surgical procedures for lung cancer can include:

• Lobectomy: removal of a lobe (section) of a lung. The right lung has three lobes; the left lung has two lobes. When only the lobe infected by cancer is removed, the remaining healthy lobes are spared to maintain lung function.
• Wedge resection: removal of a small wedge-shaped part of the lung that contains cancerous cells along with a small amount of healthy tissue that surrounds the area.

Our surgeons have advanced, minimally invasive technology options to treat lung cancer, including video-assisted thoracic surgery and a robotic da Vinci Surgical System.

Medical Oncology

Baptist Health offers medical therapy, including chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and other targeted therapies. Targeted therapies are drugs that block the growth and spread of cancer by interfering with specific molecules. Your medical oncologist will personalize and monitor the most effective plan for your cancer with your entire cancer care team.

Our outpatient infusion centers offer a comfortable, convenient setting where you can meet with your nurse navigator and members of your supportive care team.

Radiation Therapy

Radiation therapy is a unique course of treatment that is tailored to each individual patient at the direction of a radiation oncologist. Each of our Baptist Health Radiation Therapy locations use advanced technology and equipment to help deliver the safest and most accurate radiation treatment. Your radiation oncologist will work with your cancer care team to determine and monitor the most effective treatment plan for your cancer.

Services

Genetic Counseling

A certified genetic counselor can discuss an individual’s personal risk for cancer and what the individual and their family can do to lower their chances of getting cancer, and increase the chance for early detection if cancer does occur. 

Research

Conducting research is essential to evaluate the latest and most advanced therapies. Clinical trials play a significant role in the development of new or improved opportunities to diagnose, treat or prevent diseases and conditions. Patients who enroll in research studies participate in clinical trials at the forefront of improving patient care.

Oncology Rehabilitation or Lymphedema Therapy

Outpatient physical and occupational therapy at the Medical Pavilion Therapy clinic offers rehabilitation and therapy from diagnosis through survivorship. Therapy may begin at the time of your diagnosis and will continue through surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation.

Using a one-on-one model, our specially trained breast care and lymphedema therapists provide individualized treatment plans that may include the following:

• Preventive care.
• Baseline bioimpedance testing for early detection and treatment of lymphedema.
• Compression garment fitting/bandaging.
• Lymphedema management (persistent swelling) and manual lymphatic drainage.
• Conservative pain management.
• Restoration of range of motion, weakness and fatigue.
• Scar and self-care management.
• Education regarding postoperative exercise.
• Survivorship guidance, including referral to the Baptist Health/Milestone Wellness CARE (Cancer and Restorative Exercise) program.

Technology

Ion™ bronchoscopy is a safe, effective procedure used to diagnose cancer at earlier stages. This minimally invasive, robot-assisted procedure allows surgeons to biopsy nodules in hard-to-reach areas of the lung, allowing cancers to be identified earlier and quicker.

Multidisciplinary Clinic

Our multidisciplinary team focuses on identifying and treating lung cancer as early as possible. This is done in two separate clinics:

• Incidental Pulmonary Nodule Clinic: Lung nodules are common, and not all are cancer. This clinic is for patients who have one or more lung nodules, but have not been diagnosed with lung cancer. Our lung care team will guide patients through the screening and diagnostic process to help diagnose lung cancer or determine the best plan for nodule management.
• Thoracic Clinic: At the point of a lung cancer diagnosis, it’s important that multiple specialists work together to determine the best course of treatment for that individual. In one visit to the clinic, patients will see a thoracic surgeon, medical oncologist, radiation oncologist, nurse navigator, and any necessary supportive care team members, such as a genetic counselor or social worker. Patients leave the clinic with an understanding of their diagnosis and a personalized treatment plan.

Cancer Conferences

Our cancer treatment conference is an approach that brings together a multidisciplinary team of specialists to discuss and plan treatment options for patients. Each patient’s individual diagnosis and treatment plan is reviewed by a team that include surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, pulmonologists, radiologists, a pathologist, palliative care specialists, nurse navigators, and other supportive care team members.

With You Every Step of the Way From Diagnosis to Treatment

Breast Cancer Screening

Breast cancer screening is designed to detect breast cancer at an early stage before symptoms are present. Current guidelines established by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommend women begin having yearly mammograms at age 40. Breast screening may be recommended earlier based on your individual risk factors and family history.

Imaging and Diagnostic Testing

Advanced technology allows physicians precise access and navigation to difficult-to-reach areas to obtain tissue and fluid samples from your breasts. There are a variety of diagnostic tests you may receive during your breast cancer treatment.

These may include:

• Screening or diagnostic mammogram
• Breast ultrasound
• Breast MRI
• Stereotactic, ultrasound, or MRI-guided core needle biopsy

Lung Cancer Screening

Lung cancer screening is designed to detect lung cancer at an early stage before symptoms are present. Current guidelines established by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommend screening for highrisk individuals. You may be at high risk if you are over 50 and have smoked at least one pack of cigarettes per day for 20 years or more. It is important to get a low-dose CT scan every year until it has been 15 years or more since you last smoked. Note, there is no prep for this exam, and it does not require an IV.

Imaging and Diagnostic Testing

Advanced technology allows physicians precise access and navigation to difficult-to-reach areas as they obtain tissue and fluid samples from your lungs.

There are a variety of diagnostic tests you may receive during your lung cancer treatment.

These may include:

• CAT scan (or CT) guided biopsy
• PET scan
• Pulmonary function test
• Ion™ robotic bronchoscopy
• Endobronchial ultrasound

High-Risk Breast Clinic at the Charles and Mimi Osborn Cancer Center

The Baptist Health High-Risk Breast Clinic offers support in helping women understand and manage their breast cancer risk. Our breast program team works to educate patients about high-risk breast assessments, assists with ongoing surveillance needs, educates patients about screening options available to high-risk patients, and provides strategies to reduce a patient’s risk for breast cancer.

Honoring the Legacy of “Mimi” Osborn

The Charles and Mimi Osborn Cancer Center is named in honor of Mary Taylor “Mimi” Osborn, whose life inspired the creation of this facility. Following a 10-year battle with breast cancer, Mimi passed away at Baptist Health Louisville in 2014, but her legacy of community support and service lives on. Charles A. Osborn, Jr., her devoted husband, made a generous donation in her name, catalyzing the establishment of the new center. Inspired by this gift, the Baptist Health Foundation of Greater Louisville raised the funds needed to bring this project to life, creating a beacon of hope and healing for cancer patients in Louisville.