Looking for a hotel while at the University of Florida Shands Cancer Center? Visit the Super 8 Motel in Gainesville, we are your Shands Cancer Center hotel.
Patients & Families - Welcome
The University of Florida Shands Cancer Center (UFSCC) is part of one of the leading referral centers in the Southeast and is the flagship cancer center for the state of Florida and its residents. We are committed to discovering disease mechanisms, developing new and novel therapies while testing them via clinical trials and delivering state-of-the-art care to our patients. Our goal is to eradicate this disease.
Our clinical and research activity occurs primarily on University of Florida's two academic campuses located in Gainesville and Jacksonville. In addition, we have strong working relationships with many community physicians across the state of Florida and southeast Georgia.
The multidisciplinary teams at our Center include individuals from many disciplines – surgical oncology, medical oncology, radiation oncology, pathology, diagnostic and interventional radiology, nutrition, social worker, as well as members from specialty medicine and surgical disciplines. Each team provides treatment options based on traditional methods, as well as innovative research alternatives for several areas including:
- Bone marrow transplantation
- Bone cancer
- Breast cancer
- Brain cancer
- Children's cancer
- Endocrine cancer
- Gastrointestinal cancer
- Gynecological cancer
- Hematologic (blood) cancer
- Skin cancer
Detailed information on our multidisciplinary teams, clinical services and clinical trials are available throughout this Web site. For more information visit the UFSCC website.