UK Markey Cancer Center Buildings
The UK Markey Cancer Center includes four buildings grouped around a central courtyard, as well as a new patient floor in the UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital:
- Ben F. Roach Cancer Care Facility (Pavilion CC)
- Marylou Whitney and John Hendrickson Cancer Facility (Pavilion WH)
- M. Margrite Davis and Ralph E. Mills Magnetic Imaging and Spectroscopy Center
- Dorothy Enslow Combs Cancer Research Facility (Combs)
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The UK Markey Cancer Center
Established in 1985, Markey Cancer Center utilizes the resources of multiple departments, colleges, and faculty members located throughout the university to further the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer. Patient care at Markey encompasses four individual facilities in three buildings with more than 100,000 square feet of clinical space, although its programs reach well beyond the UK campus, extending throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky and across twelve states of Appalachia and the Mid-South.
The Markey Cancer Center is physically located at the north-central end of the UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital. Markey is integrated within UK HealthCare for patient care services and within the UK College of Medicine for academic/education, research, and service programs.
Ben F. Roach Cancer Care Facility
The Ben F. Roach Cancer Care Facility (Pavilion CC) of the Markey Cancer Center provides 48,000 square feet of space dedicated to the individualized care of cancer patients. This facility houses 27 private inpatient rooms with satellite bases for all primary services and outpatient cancer services for Radiation Oncology, Hematologic/BMT disease, and Head, Neck & Respiratory disease. A linear accelerator and brachytherapy unit are located in the basement of the Ben F. Roach Building of the cancer center and a GAMMA Knife irradiation facility is located in the underground corridor connector between the Roach Building and the UK Hospital.
The Ben F. Roach Cancer Center is located adjacent to UK Chandler Hospital on Rose Street, and a small parking lot and drop-off circle are accessible next to the building.
What’s inside?
Floor G — Radiation Oncology, including newly added Varian Halcyon and SOMATOM CT sliding gantry treatment equipment
Floor 1 — Lobby, Radiation Oncology, Hematology Clinic
Floor 2 — Head, Neck & Respiratory Clinic (Head and Neck Surgery, Voice, Thyroid).
Floor 3 — Inpatient Women's Health and Bluegrass Care Navigators Inpatient Hospice Unit
Floor 4 — Cancer-related research labs and offices
Marylou Whitney and John Hendrickson Cancer Facility
The Whitney-Hendrickson (WH) Building includes most outpatient cancer care services.
What’s inside?
Floor 1 — Lobby, Multidisciplinary Clinic, Chemotherapy Infusion, PET-CT, Café.
Floor 2 — Comprehensive Breast Center, Mammography, Chemotherapy Infusion.
Floor 3 — Gynecologic Oncology, Ovarian Cancer Screening, Integrative Medicine & Health Clinic.
M. Margrite Davis and Ralph E. Mills Magnetic Imaging and Spectroscopy Center
The Margrite Davis and Ralph Mills Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Center houses instrumentation, research laboratories and support services for molecular, cellular, animal and human spectroscopic imaging, aiding the study of disease processes and evaluation of responses to treatment. The office tower of the MRISC Building is integrated with the Whitney-Hendrickson building.
What's inside?
Floor—MRI patient services
The MRISC is an interdisciplinary center that promotes basic, applied, and clinical research in the biomedical sciences along with patient care in magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy. The MRISC adjoins the new Women's' Cancer Facility and is one of the three buildings that make up the Markey Cancer Center, which is located on Rose Street next to UK Chandler Hospital. A small parking lot and drop-off circle for patients is located off Rose Street on the north side of Markey Cancer Center.
Along with the MRI and spectroscopy equipment for patient care, about 30,000 square feet of space is devoted to research and development of biomedical applications in magnetic resonance.
Dorothy Enslow Combs Cancer Research Facility
The Combs Building provides over 24,500 square feet of state of the art laboratory, office and conference space and includes three core facilities: Macromolecular Structure Analysis, NMR Spectroscopy, and Transgenic and Genetically Defined Mouse facilities. It houses primary research laboratories dedicated to cancer research, including core facilities for high field NMR, DNA sequencing, protein sequencing, peptide synthesis and oligonucleotide synthesis. In addition to its research facilities, the Combs Building is also home to Markey's support services office.
The building is located directly behind the Markey Cancer Center on the north side of UK Chandler Hospital on Rose Street.
What's inside?
Floor 1 — Lobby, research labs and offices
Floor 2 — Research labs and offices
Floor 3 — Psych-Oncology services including nutrition, financial counseling and oncology social work, as well as research labs and offices
UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital - Pavilion A
In December 2017, the UK Markey Cancer Center opened a new patient floor in Pavilion A of the UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital. The new floor includes the Darley Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, a 32-bed unit dedicated to bone marrow transplant and patients with blood cancers. This floor is home to the James and Gay Hardymon Patient Care Unit, a 31-bed unit for medical and surgical oncology patients.
What's inside?
Pavilion A, 11th Floor — Darley Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, James and Gay Hardymon Patient Care Unit
UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital - Pavilion H
In Pavilion H of UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital, patients are treated at the Precision Medicine Clinic, a space dedicated to the advancement of treatment options for cancer patients through early phase clinical trials.
What's inside?
Pavilion H, 1st Floor — Markey Cancer Center Administrative Offices
Pavilion H, 2nd Floor — Precision Medicine Clinic located in Suite HX200, across from the elevators.
