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Nantucket Cottage Hospital Expands Oncology  
Services through Collaboration with the  
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

A new collaboration with the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center is providing on-island hematology/oncology services to Nantucket.  The new agreement, signed this spring, means residents will no longer have to travel off island for regular visits with Mass General oncologists. 
 
 
"This expansion builds on over two decades of compassion and  
hard work by island clinicians dedicated to the best cancer care." 
- Dr. Margot Hartmann
President and CEO of Nantucket Cottage Hospital 
 

The Mass General Cancer Center team will be led by Richard T. Penson, MD, MRCP, who will serve as medical director and who will be part of the rotation to see patients in Nantucket on a monthly basis. Additionally, Jane Kelly, APRN-BC, will be available on-site to patients twice a week in her duties as nurse practitioner and will be otherwise accessible daily for telephone consultations. She is a native of Nantucket and will also be serving her fellow islanders on the other days from a satellite office at Martha's Vineyard Hospital.  

 

"Patients living on the island of Nantucket will now have access to
one of the finest cancer treatment programs 
in the United States." 

- Dr. David Ryan

Chief of Hematology/Oncology at Mass General and

clinical director at Mass General Cancer Center

 

Penson and his clinical colleagues from the Mass General Cancer Center in Boston will travel to Nantucket Cottage on a rotating monthly basis to provide continual care to the community.  They include Gerry Azzoli, MD, Jeffrey Barnes, MD, Donald Lawrence, MD, and Lydia Schapira, MD. 

Among the services available within Nantucket Cottage Hospital's oncology department:

  • Outpatient chemotherapy and biotherapy
  • Consultations spanning a wide variety of cancer subspecialties, including neck,
    breast, GI, lung and melanoma 
  • Treatment plan development
  • Advance screening via CT scans and MRIs
  • Oncology lab panels 

For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call the Mass General Hematology/Oncology Service at Nantucket Cottage Hospital at 855-508-5275. 



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Caitlin Marcoux at 
Nantucket Cottage Hospital
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Cancer Thriver & Yoga Teacher

"In our lifetime, 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women will be diagnosed with cancer. I'm participating in Swim Across America because I am one of these women. 

I was diagnosed with aggressive invasive ductal carcinoma (breast cancer) on March 15th, 2013. I am actively engaged in a battle to take back my health from this deadly disease. I joined the Swim Across America community so that, together, we can change the odds.
 
I am honored to be a part of this collective healing journey. It is my deepest wish that cancer survivors, thrivers and caregivers on Nantucket, and around the world,  know they are not alone." 
 
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