{"entity":{"id":"loma-linda-cancer-center","kind":"institution","name":"Loma Linda University Cancer Center","aka":["Loma Linda University Health Cancer Center"],"tldr":"The cancer centre of Loma Linda University Health in southern California, home to a hospital-based proton therapy centre and a set of cancer-specific treatment teams.","summary":"The Loma Linda University Cancer Center is part of Loma Linda University Health in Loma Linda, California. It describes itself as the only dedicated cancer centre in its region and as home to the first hospital-based proton treatment centre, and says it has 11 multidisciplinary teams, each focused on a type of cancer, and more than 75 open clinical trials. Each case is reviewed by an expert panel, and patients are assigned a navigator. Treatments listed on its pages include proton therapy, hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), theranostics, transplant and cellular therapy, and HIFU for prostate cancer. It says it is home to one of only a few dozen surgical oncology training programmes in the United States.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"About the Loma Linda University Cancer Center","url":"https://lluh.org/cancer-center"},{"label":"Cancer programmes","url":"https://lluh.org/cancer-center/cancer-programs"},{"label":"Cancer treatments","url":"https://lluh.org/cancer-center/cancer-treatments"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["breast-cancer","prostate","lung-cancer","colorectal","head-and-neck"],"sections":[],"technologies":["proton-therapy","hipec"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Loma Linda, CA","country":"US","lat":34.048,"lng":-117.261,"institutionType":"cancer-center","website":"https://lluh.org/cancer-center","university":"Loma Linda University Health","programs":["Cancer programmes listed on its pages: bone and soft tissue, breast, colorectal, gastrointestinal, gynaecologic, head and neck, haematology, liver, lung and oesophageal, neurological, paediatric, prostate and skin cancer care","Proton therapy centre","Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) and hepatic artery infusion pump placement","Theranostics and interventional radiology","Adult bone marrow transplant and cellular therapy","Cancer clinical trials, adult and paediatric","Patient navigation, symptom management and survivorship support","Surgical oncology training programme"]},"route":"/institutions/loma-linda-cancer-center/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"breast-cancer","kind":"cancer","name":"Breast cancer (all types)","route":"/cancers/breast-cancer/"},{"id":"colorectal","kind":"cancer","name":"Colorectal cancer","route":"/cancers/colorectal/"},{"id":"head-and-neck","kind":"cancer","name":"Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma","route":"/cancers/head-and-neck/"},{"id":"lung-cancer","kind":"cancer","name":"Lung cancer (all types)","route":"/cancers/lung-cancer/"},{"id":"prostate","kind":"cancer","name":"Prostate cancer","route":"/cancers/prostate/"}],"technology":[{"id":"hipec","kind":"technology","name":"HIPEC / PIPAC (intraperitoneal chemotherapy)","route":"/technologies/hipec/"},{"id":"proton-therapy","kind":"technology","name":"Proton therapy","route":"/technologies/proton-therapy/"}],"institution":[{"id":"aaci","kind":"institution","name":"Association of American Cancer Institutes","route":"/institutions/aaci/"}]}}