About the Ray and Kay Eckstein Regional Cancer Center

Services and Treatments Offered at Ray and Kay Eckstein Regional Cancer Center

Treatments

We provide chemotherapy services in addition to other supportive infusions for our patients, including:

Medical Oncology 

The use of chemotherapy, hormonal therapy or immunotherapy to treat cancer and its symptoms. Depending on the type of cancer, these treatments may be used in combination or with surgery or radiation

Chemotherapy

These drugs may be prescribed to kill cancer cells to keep them from spreading. Chemotherapy can be used before surgery to shrink a tumor, after surgery to kill remaining cancer cells and to help reduce symptoms. Chemotherapy may be delivered by mouth as a pill or liquid, by IV infusion in a vein, as a cream applied on the surface of the skin, or as an injection.

Hormonal Therapy

Hormones travel throughout the body, regulating the activity or behavior of cells or organs. Hormonal therapy uses certain drugs to block, remove or alter the activity of hormones in order to slow or stop cancer cell growth. Hormonal therapy can be delivered by mouth as a pill, as an injection or as a surgical procedure to remove organs that produce hormones.

Immunotherapy

Concentrated amounts of the body’s natural substances can sometimes help the immune system to fight certain cancers. Immunotherapy helps the body attack or combat cancer cells. It uses substances made by the body in a laboratory, which are injected or administered as an IV infusion.

Services

Speech Therapy

Our speech-language pathologists provide a wide variety of services to evaluate and treat speech related symptoms resulting from your diagnosis or treatments.

Nutritional services

Our registered dietician can facilitate a healthy eating plan for you to help fuel your body as you treat your Cancer.

Psychosocial services

We focus on the whole person - mind, body, and spirit. With treatment plans tailored to meet each person’s needs, we help our patients understand and manage their conditions.

Lymphadema Therapy

Therapy including massage, compression, exercise and skin care to assist with excess fluid that causes swelling in the extremeties.

Financial Counseling

We work with you to assist in understanding your bill and the costs associated with treatment.

Resource Room

Our resource room provides services and supplies to our patients. This service is supported by the hospitals YourFight employees fund for patients needing extra assistance during their journey.

Radiation Oncology Team

We take pride in our multidisciplinary team of skilled professionals who work together to provide comprehensive and effective radiation therapy treatments. Each team member plays a crucial role in delivering personalized care tailored to each patient’s unique needs.

Radiation Oncologist

Our radiation oncologist is a board-certified medical doctor specializing in cancer treatment with radiation therapy. He develops and oversees individualized treatment plans, from initial consultations and determining the appropriate type and dose of radiation to monitoring progress and managing side effects.

Medical Physicists

Our medical physicists ensure the safe and effective delivery of radiation therapy. They calibrate our state-of-the-art equipment, develop advanced treatment plans with our oncologist, and perform rigorous quality assurance tests to uphold the highest safety standards.

Dosimetrists

Our dosimetrists meticulously plan the delivery of radiation treatments using advanced software and imaging technologies. They create detailed plans that maximize radiation doses to the tumor while minimizing exposure to healthy tissues, ensuring optimal outcomes.

Radiation Therapists

Our radiation therapists administer the prescribed radiation treatments with precision and care. They position patients for each session, operate our cutting-edge linear accelerator, and ensure accurate radiation delivery while monitoring patient safety and comfort.

Radiation Oncology Nurse

Our radiation oncology nurse provides comprehensive nursing care and support to patients undergoing radiation therapy. She educates patients about their treatment, manages side effects, offers emotional support, and assists with symptom management, ensuring a comfortable and well-supported journey for each patient.

Oncology Social Worker

Oncology Social Worker assist our patients with psychosocial needs as well as assisting in finding resources to help in the cancer journey.

With You Every Step of the Way from Diagnosis to Treatment

As Baptist Health Paducah celebrates its 50th year of cancer care, it consolidates a variety of cancer services from across the hospital campus into the Ray & Kay Eckstein Regional Cancer Care Center, a two-story 56,000-square-foot facility on the northeast corner of the hospital campus. Patients can see their doctors and get their labs and treatment – all in the same sparkling new center designed with a serene and healing atmosphere.

Features of the center include:

• 25 infusion suites with heated chairs, TVs and views of healing gardens. They can be partitioned for privacy or opened for socializing.
• Lab and pharmacy, adjacent to infusion suites.
• Two Linear Accelerators and a High Dose Rate unit for radiation treatments.
• Resource room for information; supplies; support group meetings; teleconferences; genetic counseling; individual and family counseling; advance care planning.
• Two adjacent healing gardens, with access and visibility from inside the center.
• Close to the hospital cafeteria.
• Physician offices on the second floor.

Preparing for Your Visit to Ray & Kay Eckstein Cancer Center 

Baptist Health Paducah Cancer Care is offered at one convenient location - the Ray & Kay Eckstein Regional Cancer Care Center.

Outpatients will receive radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and other services at the Cancer Center, located at 25th St. and Broadway, on the backside of the hospital building. We see about 110 patients every day for outpatient radiation and chemotherapy.

Additional Cancer Care Services

Some cancer services, such as diagnostic imaging tests and surgery, may be performed in other areas of the hospital.

• Imaging services are available in the hospital, or at the Baptist Health Imaging Center, next door. Please phone 270.415.7242 for more information.
• Radiology and the Earl Freezor Regional Radiation Therapy Center are on the first floor of the main hospital building, and may be reached at 270.575.2600 and 270.575.2780, respectively.
• A certified lymphedema specialist sees patients at Baptist Health Rehabilitation, please call 270.534.1200 for more information.