NCI Community Oncology Research Program
| Feist-Weiller Cancer Center

What is NCORP?

The National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program, or NCORP, was created by the National Cancer Institute to expand access to clinical trials throughout the United States, especially in medically underserved communities. 

FWCC is a member of Gulf South NCORP.

The Gulf South NCORP is nationally recognized and has received awards by NCI for high accrual of a highly diverse group of patients. Through the NCORP, patients can participate in a variety of cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship clinical trials in addition to cancer care delivery studies.

The rapid development of successful new treatments such as targeted therapies and immunotherapies, have made adding clinical trials a part of regular planning during a cancer patient’s treatment and can help decrease the overall cancer mortality rate in our region.

Benefits of receiving Cancer Treatment at FWCC

Feist-Weiller Cancer Center (FWCC) at LSU Health Shreveport was designated as a Center for Excellence in Cancer Research, Treatment, and Education in 1993.

Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport Academic Medical Center

  • 550-bed tertiary acute-care hospital with 16 beds dedicated to oncology patients and 12 beds for Bone Marrow Transplants (BMT) patients
  • 60,000 square foot outpatient building designed as a multidisciplinary outpatient facility, houses the FWCC Clinical Cancer Research program 
  • More than 100 protocol treatments offered
  • All outpatient treatment of cancer patients are consolidated in a convenient single site

Included in the facility are

  • adult hematology/oncology, breast health center
  • pediatric hematology
  • surgical oncology, two outpatient surgical suites and two Endoscopy suites
  • ENT oncology with speech pathology and laryngectomy support
  • hematology/oncology specific laboratory and pharmacy
  • radiology services including digital mammography, diagnostic radiology and fluoroscopy, stereotactic procedures, CT, bone densitometry, and C-arm
  • resource library

In addition to the ambulatory treatment, FWCC also provides

  • genetics counseling for prevention and detection,
  • data registry,
  • support groups for cancer patients,
  • patient education,
  • quality assurances for both inpatients and outpatients,
  • patient relations, which pursues quality-of-life issues and patient satisfaction.
  • Case management and social services personnel work with agencies for hospice and home health care follow-up.

Radiation therapy is available in the adjacent main hospital facility, as is PET imaging.

Feist-Weiller Cancer Center is accredited by JCAHO, ACR, and ACoS.

Feist-Weiller Cancer Center has only one sub-affiliate at the present time that enrolls patients into NCORP trials at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport – Monroe Medical Center.

Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport – Monroe Medical Center

  • 247-bed, public hospital with 48 physicians servicing a 12-parish area in northeast Louisiana
  • operates an extensive system of hospital-based outpatient clinics, including a family medicine clinic, where patients receive high-quality primary and preventive care.
  • Inpatient services include family medicine, medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, general surgery, orthopedics, urology, ophthalmology and psychiatry.
  • For diagnostic services, the hospital has a state-of-the-art MRI system and 24-hour teleradiology for offsite and after-hours readings.
  • The hospital is accredited by JCAHO.