The Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University is one of only 39 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the United States and the only freestanding cancer hospital in the Midwest.  Consistently listed by U.S. News and World Report as one of America’s best hospitals for cancer care, The James is wholly committed to cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and research.  The James Cancer Hospital goal is to provide skilled and compassionate patient care in a state-of-the-art facility offering the most effective treatment available.

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The 172-bed hospital (268,000 square feet) has 13 floors and contains a 24-bed bone marrow transplantation unit, 40 outpatient examination/consultation rooms, 26 basic research laboratories and support facilities with more than 200 researchers working in well over 200 clinical trials in cancer prevention and treatment, six specialized surgical suites, a Perianesthesia Unit for pre- and post-operative care of inpatients and outpatients, a clinical laboratory, 21 private chemotherapy suites, an average of nearly 6,000 inpatient admissions each year, and a pharmacy dedicated to chemotherapy.  Its outpatient facilities support approximately 130,000 visits annually.  In addition, The James maintains a 12-bed oncology unit at The Community Hospital in Springfield and offers quality cancer care at University Hospital East, an OSU facility serving the east side of Columbus.  It also provides comprehensive outpatient breast health services at JamesCare in Dublin.

Ambulatory Center Desk

The OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute is home to central Ohio's leading robotic prostatectomy surgeon Vipul Patel, MD.  Patel is an internationally recognized expert in minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic urologic surgery.  His clinical interests involve urologic cancer and laparoscopic reconstruction with special emphasis on the care of patients with prostate and kidney cancer.  He has performed more than 1,500 open, laparoscopic and robotic surgeries.  His experience of almost 1,000 robotic surgeries is one of the largest in the world.  The James Cancer Hospital is also preparing to become a leading U.S. center for training surgeons and anesthesiologists to perform the robotic surgery and in researching its further development and use.  The James Cancer Hospital urology program has been recognized as among the best in the country in the latest "America's Best Hospitals" issue of U.S. News & World Report

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