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Statewide Partners
The Hollings Cancer Center Partner Network is comprised of four key partnerships: the Hollings Cancer Center Clinical Trials Network, the Hollings Cancer Center Satellites, the Hollings Cancer Center Affiliate Alliance, and the Health Sciences South Carolina. These partnerships allow us to leverage specialized knowledge in research, clinical practice, practice management, program development, and continuing medical education to improve cancer care in the State of South Carolina. 
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 Hollings Cancer Center Affiliate Alliance
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Many oncology programs reach a point in development where quality patient care and clinical operations are in place. They realize that the standard of care for oncology services includes providing patient access to research and clinical trials. A partnership with the Hollings Cancer Center Clinical Trials Network offers assistance with development and/or ongoing management of a quality clinical trials program, as well as access to in-house Hollings/MUSC studies, national cooperative group trials such as SWOG (Southwest Oncology Group), pharmaceutical industry studies, and collaborative research.

 Learn more about the Hollings Cancer Center Clinical Trials Network and its members

Hollings Cancer Center Satellites
Hospitals within close geographic proximity to Charleston, SC that offer quality patient care programs and seek to broaden their scope of service to include oncology are candidates to be a Hollings Cancer Center Satellite.  In these cases, the Hollings Cancer Center/MUSC and the community hospital partner to develop and manage a clinical oncology program, whether medical oncology, radiation oncology, surgical oncology and/or some combination. Clinics are staffed by Medical University of South Carolina physicians, physician extenders, and fellows.  For more information, contact Bruce Elliott, M.D, MUSC Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs, 843-792-3504.

Satellite partners:
Georgetown Medical Center, Georgetown, SC
East Cooper Medical Center, Mt. Pleasant, SC

Hollings Cancer Center Affiliate Alliance
In response to development, growth, and expansion needs of hospitals not within ready geographic proximity to Charleston, SC, the Hollings Cancer Center has established an Affiliates program. This affiliation combines consultative management and administrative functions outlined in the Affiliation agreement, clinical relationships between community-based providers and faculty/staff at MUSC, and clinical trials development and management outlined in a required Hollings Cancer Center Clinical Trials Network agreement. This relationship offers the opportunity for customization depending on the capabilities, needs and interests of the affiliate organization. Programmatic development can be comprehensive, or can center on a specific subspecialty.

Affiliate partners:
Carolina Regional Cancer Center, Myrtle Beach, SC
Hilton Head Regional Medical Center, Hilton Head, SC

Learn more about Hollings Cancer Center Affiliate Alliance

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Health Sciences South Carolina
Health Sciences South Carolina was founded in April 2004 with a vision of improving the health and economic wellbeing of the state through a coordinated strategy to advance research and education.  The founding partners include two of the state’s largest healthcare systems and two of the state’s research universities, Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center, Palmetto Health, the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of South Carolina. They created this unique public-private partnership to leverage existing resources, secure investment, attract partners, create momentum and drive results.  After a single year, the collaborative has grown to include Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System and Clemson University and has begun affecting change and achieving results. As part of this larger initiative, there is a coordinated effort to focus on issue of cancer. 

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