Lifespan Cancer Institute
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Cancer Care and COVID-19
Safety is our top priority
We want to assure you that the we are here for you. While the coronavirus has changed much of our daily lives, one thing that has remained constant is our commitment to providing you with the best, safest care possible.
At the Lifespan Cancer Institute, your safety is our top priority. As experts in cancer, we also know completing a treatment plan is associated with the best outcomes for patients. That is why we worked closely with our infection prevention and infectious diseases teams to be able to provide the care you need in a safe environment.
About the Lifespan Cancer Institute
Cancer Services
The Lifespan Cancer Institute at Rhode Island, The Miriam, Newport and Hasbro Children's hospitals provides the most current cancer diagnosis and treatment options. Our world-renowned physicians and specialists form multidisciplinary teams, both in the hospitals and at the Lifespan Ambulatory Care Center in East Greenwich. Their collective level of knowledge and experience is unparalleled in the region.
Additional experts–including nurses, nurse navigators, pharmacists, social workers, and nutritionists–work with patients and their families to ensure complete care from diagnosis through recovery.

Contact the Lifespan Cancer Institute
For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call us at 1-844-222-2881.
An Emerging Approach for Treatment
After decades of research in cancer treatment, physicians and researchers are touting the benefits of a new defense against cancer. Precision medicine is a personalized and targeted approach for disease treatment and prevention. It takes into account the individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each patient.
Two notable areas of precision medicine that we have integrated into our practice are immunotherapy and molecularly targeted treatment. The Lifespan Cancer Institute currently has a number of investigational studies to further explore these treatments. Our efforts focus on accelerating the progress of research by developing the right strategies and giving our patients the best possible outcomes through the latest treatments.

Donate to Support Cancer Research
Support from our donors advances the mission of the Lifespan Cancer Institute, helping our team provide expert patient care and conduct leading-edge research.

Types of Cancer
Find information about services at the Lifespan Cancer Institute for a specific type of cancer.
Cancer Research and Clinical Trials
The Lifespan Cancer Institute is an active clinical trials site, committed to providing patients with the latest protocols. Our patients have access to groundbreaking new immunotherapies and other new and emerging cancer treatments at various stages of diagnosis and across many cancer types.
Cancer treatments include the latest chemotherapy, biologic agents, radiation oncology, surgery, and image-guided procedures—many of which are not available elsewhere in New England. Our physicians actively participate in the Brown University Oncology Group, a unique regional clinical trials network that provides highly innovative approaches to cancer care.

Research and Clinical Trials
Learn more about the innovative cancer research and treatments at the Lifespan Cancer Institute.
Patient Feedback
Knowing about the experiences of our patients helps us as providers. Please know that any message received is encrypted and forwarded directly to our leadership team, which includes the hospital president and chief executive officer, chief medical officer, and chief nursing officer.
A patient advocate may contact you directly for follow up. Billing questions are forwarded to Lifespan's director of patient financial services. The Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC) encourages feedback and engagement from all patients and families.

Rising Above Cancer
Lifespan Cancer Institute
Learn more about how our extraordinary care brings your life back to ordinary.

Meet Rick
It is his unique ability to find the humor in the realism of life that helped Rick through his fight against cancer.

Pediatric Cancer Services
Learn about pediatric cancer services at Lifespan.

Don't Ignore the Signs
Learn more about some common, but often subtle symptoms of cancer.
Lifespan Locations
Conveniently located in 6 areas across Rhode Island.
- Lifespan Cancer Institute, Rhode Island Hospital
- Pediatric Cancer Services, Hasbro Children's Hospital
- Lifespan Cancer Institute, The Miriam Hospital
- Lifespan Cancer Institute, Newport Hospital
- Lifespan Cancer Institute, East Greenwich, RI
- Lifespan Cancer Institute, Lincoln, RI
Lifespan Cancer Institute, Rhode Island Hospital
Ambulatory Patient Center (APC Building)
(directions)
110 Lockwood St.
Providence, RI 02903
Pediatric Cancer Services, Hasbro Children's Hospital
Hasbro Children's Hospital
(directions)
593 Eddy Street
Providence, RI 02903
Lifespan Cancer Institute, The Miriam Hospital
Norman & Rosalie Fain Health Centers (The Fain Building)
(directions)
140 Summit Ave, Third Floor
Providence, RI 02906
Lifespan Cancer Institute, Newport Hospital
Newport Hospital
(directions)
20 Powel Avenue, Turner Building, 5th Floor
Newport, RI 02840
Lifespan Cancer Institute, East Greenwich, RI
Lifespan Ambulatory Care Center
(directions)
1454 South County Trail
East Greenwich, RI 02818
Lifespan Cancer Institute, Lincoln, RI
701 George Washington Highway, Suite 101
Lincoln, RI 02865