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• The mission of Hollings Cancer Center is to reduce the cancer burden in South Carolina through world-class care, innovative research, outstanding professional education and statewide cancer prevention programs that focus on reaching underserved populations.
• Hollings Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Center and one of only 69 centers in the United States.
• As the only National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Center in South Carolina, Hollings is at the forefront of cancer research. This research helps to deliver latest medical advances to patients; educate health-care professionals and the public; and establish outreach services for underserved populations.
• We are one of a small number of health-care centers in the nation offering orthopedic/sarcoma oncology care.
• We are home to one the world’s most renowned Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) facilities.
• Hollings is South Carolina’s first, largest and most comprehensive adult blood and bone marrow transplant program and the only pediatric blood and marrow transplant program.
• MUSC is one of only a few centers in the Southeast using the video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) technique in a large percentage of cases.
• We are the only center in South Carolina performing surgery for prostate cancer four ways: robotic, perineal, retropubic and laparoscopic.
• More than 120 scientists at Hollings Cancer Center conduct research and collaborate on better ways to prevent, detect, diagnose and treat.
• We have been continuously accredited by the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons since 1936, with Accreditation with Commendation since 2013.
• The most comprehensive program for advanced melanoma care in South Carolina is found at Hollings Cancer Center.
• Hollings Cancer Center’s Advanced Breast Reconstruction Program uses the revolutionary DIEP (Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforation) technique.