August 7, 2024 • 9 mins
The University of Cincinnati's new Blood Cancer Healing Center is a state-of-the-art cancer treatment center, setting new standards in care for infusion, stem cell and cellular therapy. Dr. Bryan Hambley, an expert in the care of patients with myeloma, lymphoma and leukemia, discusses the center's commitment to becoming one of the nation's leading blood cancer centers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This week on iHeart Sense.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
That kind of inspired me as I was growing up
to think of healthcare as a noble publication where we
could do right by people.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
The University of Cincinnati's new Blood Cancer Healing Center, now open,
is a state of the art cancer treatment center, setting
new standards and care for infusion, stem cell and cellular therapy. Today,
doctor Brian Hamley, an expert in the care of patients
with my looma lymphoma and leukemia, discusses the center's commitment
to being one of the nation's leading blood cancer centers
(00:33):
and later.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's incredible, it really is prolonging lives and saving lives.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Tens of thousands of writers, eight million dollars raised, and
still the need for breast cancer research beckons caring tri
staters to Ride Cincinnati a weekend of cycling, volunteerism, food,
and entertainment.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Today you can be a part of this caring community.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Individuals and corporate leaders, small business owners and volunteers all
raising the crucial research for the Barrett Cancer Center at
the University of Cincinnati, which is saving lives and finding hope, treatments,
and possible cures for cancer. Today you'll meet the founder
of Right Cincinnati, Alison Gordon and some of her team
making it Happen.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Now on iHeart Cinsey with Sandy Collins.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
My first guest today is doctor Brian Hamley. He's a
hematology oncologist of blood cancer specialists, trained in critical care
medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and in
hematology from the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He works
right here at the University of Cincinnati and he specializes
in the use of bone marrow transplantation and cellular therapies.
(01:40):
Doctor Hamley took a few minutes from his important work
to share some information today about the new University of
Cincinnati Blood Cancer Healing Center they open just this summer. Doctor,
you look like a happy guy. You look like such
a happy guy.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, thanks, Tady. I turned off the lights behind me
and put one on in front of me. Is a
lighting the.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Way the lightings?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, we're not going to be on We're not going
to be on screen anyway. I just need to see
your attractive face and be able to get some good
sounding audios so that we can tell people about the
new blood center. Tell me how you decided to become
an oncologist, and tell me a little bit about your journey.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
First, well, I grew up on a small farm where
my first memory of healthcare was a dentist in our
local town and he had been a dentist for forty
five years for a small rural community with a lot
of people with low incomes, and I remember he would
see anybody gear respective of their ability to pay. You know,
(02:44):
one year, my parents, who didn't have a lot of money,
paid him with cantalop for a visit to the dentist
for all three of the boys, me and my two brothers.
And so I was instilled early on that healthcare is
a service, not a profit making in and that at
its best, you know, it can be a central part
(03:04):
of how a community responds to people who are having
a tough time. And so that kind of inspired me
as I was growing up to think of healthcare as
a noble location where we could where we could do
right by people.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
For folks that can't see your face.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
What you're describing sounds like something from the early nineteen hundreds,
So can you give us a frame of reference of
how short time ago that was?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
How many years you know, this was a dentist who
practice from the nineteen fifties to the nineteen nineties, and
you know, it's absolutely true that that's not the normal
anymore no itever.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So interesting because people that you know that look at
the healthcare system and they look at today, and they
hear a story like this, it's easy to just say, oh,
that was a thousand years ago, you know, and dismiss it.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But you're saying, you know, this has to.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Do with being rural, uh, being you know, not having
the money that you have when you live in the cities,
because of the jobs, and because of the care and
the nature of the doctor, the dentist that was working
on you. So I just wanted to make sure everybody
could get that full picture.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
And I'll tell you, as we've built the cancer program
at the University of Cincinnati, we don't want to just
be the cancer center for Cincinnati, you know, we want
to be Southern Ohio has a lot of rural underserved communities.
Eastern and northern Kentucky have a lot of communities where
they have may have cancer doctors, but they don't have
people who specialize just in leukemia or in bone marrow transplant.
(04:37):
And so we really want to build this to be
a center that serves the needs of the wider region,
irrespective of the people are rural and might not have
as much local access to the specialized cancer care.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So tell me about opening up this this new blood center.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You just did that earlier this summer. Tell us you
know how.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It came to you know, to mind and then how
it came to fruition.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, of course, Well, leukemia and lymphoma are aggressive blood cancers,
and they're also not the most common cancers. And we
know that getting people the right care very quickly after
they get a diagnosis of leukemia or lymphoma is essential
to giving them the best chance of being cured. And
(05:23):
so what we've been building at the University of Cincinnati
over the last five years is a program where we
have specialized doctors and specialized nurses and specialized pharmacists, and
we're putting together a team of people who are dedicated
to the care of people with blood cancers. And so
as we've been building this program, we decided this was
(05:43):
the right time to invest in a building that was
dedicated to the needs of those patients, and we've been
excited to open it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
What other treatments are you going to be offering there
at the center, And who are the people that will
fill those beds?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, and so we have thirty in patient beds, we
have quite a few outpatient clinic rooms, and then we
also have chemotherapy and fusion rooms all in the same building.
And so on any given day, there'll be more than
one hundred patients in and out of the building, whether
they're living at home and coming in for treatment or care,
(06:20):
or whether they're having to stay the night in the
hospital for treatments. And that might be patients who need
clinical trials because the drug they took with their local
oncologist wasn't working well. It might be as you set
a bone marrow transplant where to get the best chance
of being cured of their cancer, they needed another person
stem cells to be infused into them, and then everything
(06:43):
in between in terms of standard standard chemotherapy. And we
want that all offered in the same building. We want
that all offered by the same teams, so that we
really get to know our patients well who were going
through a very difficult disease.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
All these great benefits all in one place. Does that
make a difference in how people respond or survive these
blood cancers.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
To get great cancer care, I think you need three things. First,
you need a team right after your diagnose that make
sure that the diagnosis is right and the initial treatment
is right. Second, you need a family and friend and
community support network that can support you both through the
(07:34):
medical side of side effects of treatments, through the emotional side,
coming to visits with you. So those support people are essential.
And then third, you need an ongoing treatment team that's
making sure the medicine is working how it should, that
we continue treatments when they're working, that we stop treatments
when they're not, and that we identify any side effects
(07:56):
early so that we can intervene on those. Having all
of this in one house and one large building for
blood cancer patients allows us to do all three of
those essential things more effectively, and that was our dream
when we decided to build this.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
If someone's hearing this and they're going through this kind
of therapy or treatment, or they will soon, how would
they become affiliated with the Blood center if their doctor
doesn't necessarily come from UC.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And we work with physicians at all different hospitals and
practices throughout the region, and we're happy to see people
either as a second opinion if that's valuable to them
and their physician team, or if they have a disease
where they need to get care from us on an
ongoing basis, and so we communicate and work with all
(08:47):
different doctors around to make that happen.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
So are you excited about the new digs?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh, the patient rooms are beautiful, the inpatient, the outpatient.
Its space is great. I'm most excited about our clinical
trial area, which really gives us much needed space to
grow in that area for patients who need clinical trials.
So yeah, I've been very excited about it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's very good, Very good.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, doctor, thank you so much for being on the
call today and helping us learn more about the University
of Cincinnati's new Blood Cancer Center, which is opening up
on Healing Way there in uptown Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Thanks for all that you do for your patients.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And thank you Sandy.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I really appreciate the time.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Now from the University of Cincinnati's new Blood Cancer Healing
Center to Breast Cancer Research Ride Cincinnati, we'll talk with
the founder and her team coming up next.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
This is iHeart Cincy.
This week on iHeart Sense.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
That kind of inspired me as I was growing up
to think of healthcare as a noble publication where we
could do right by people.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
The University of Cincinnati's new Blood Cancer Healing Center, now open,
is a state of the art cancer treatment center, setting
new standards and care for infusion, stem cell and cellular therapy. Today,
doctor Brian Hamley, an expert in the care of patients
with my looma lymphoma and leukemia, discusses the center's commitment
to being one of the nation's leading blood cancer centers
(00:33):
and later.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's incredible, it really is prolonging lives and saving lives.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Tens of thousands of writers, eight million dollars raised, and
still the need for breast cancer research beckons caring tri
staters to Ride Cincinnati a weekend of cycling, volunteerism, food,
and entertainment.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Today you can be a part of this caring community.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Individuals and corporate leaders, small business owners and volunteers all
raising the crucial research for the Barrett Cancer Center at
the University of Cincinnati, which is saving lives and finding hope, treatments,
and possible cures for cancer. Today you'll meet the founder
of Right Cincinnati, Alison Gordon and some of her team
making it Happen.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Now on iHeart Cinsey with Sandy Collins.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
My first guest today is doctor Brian Hamley. He's a
hematology oncologist of blood cancer specialists, trained in critical care
medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and in
hematology from the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He works
right here at the University of Cincinnati and he specializes
in the use of bone marrow transplantation and cellular therapies.
(01:40):
Doctor Hamley took a few minutes from his important work
to share some information today about the new University of
Cincinnati Blood Cancer Healing Center they open just this summer. Doctor,
you look like a happy guy. You look like such
a happy guy.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, thanks, Tady. I turned off the lights behind me
and put one on in front of me. Is a
lighting the.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Way the lightings?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, we're not going to be on We're not going
to be on screen anyway. I just need to see
your attractive face and be able to get some good
sounding audios so that we can tell people about the
new blood center. Tell me how you decided to become
an oncologist, and tell me a little bit about your journey.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
First, well, I grew up on a small farm where
my first memory of healthcare was a dentist in our
local town and he had been a dentist for forty
five years for a small rural community with a lot
of people with low incomes, and I remember he would
see anybody gear respective of their ability to pay. You know,
(02:44):
one year, my parents, who didn't have a lot of money,
paid him with cantalop for a visit to the dentist
for all three of the boys, me and my two brothers.
And so I was instilled early on that healthcare is
a service, not a profit making in and that at
its best, you know, it can be a central part
(03:04):
of how a community responds to people who are having
a tough time. And so that kind of inspired me
as I was growing up to think of healthcare as
a noble location where we could where we could do
right by people.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
For folks that can't see your face.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
What you're describing sounds like something from the early nineteen hundreds,
So can you give us a frame of reference of
how short time ago that was?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
How many years you know, this was a dentist who
practice from the nineteen fifties to the nineteen nineties, and
you know, it's absolutely true that that's not the normal
anymore no itever.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So interesting because people that you know that look at
the healthcare system and they look at today, and they
hear a story like this, it's easy to just say, oh,
that was a thousand years ago, you know, and dismiss it.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But you're saying, you know, this has to.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Do with being rural, uh, being you know, not having
the money that you have when you live in the cities,
because of the jobs, and because of the care and
the nature of the doctor, the dentist that was working
on you. So I just wanted to make sure everybody
could get that full picture.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
And I'll tell you, as we've built the cancer program
at the University of Cincinnati, we don't want to just
be the cancer center for Cincinnati, you know, we want
to be Southern Ohio has a lot of rural underserved communities.
Eastern and northern Kentucky have a lot of communities where
they have may have cancer doctors, but they don't have
people who specialize just in leukemia or in bone marrow transplant.
(04:37):
And so we really want to build this to be
a center that serves the needs of the wider region,
irrespective of the people are rural and might not have
as much local access to the specialized cancer care.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So tell me about opening up this this new blood center.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You just did that earlier this summer. Tell us you
know how.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It came to you know, to mind and then how
it came to fruition.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, of course, Well, leukemia and lymphoma are aggressive blood cancers,
and they're also not the most common cancers. And we
know that getting people the right care very quickly after
they get a diagnosis of leukemia or lymphoma is essential
to giving them the best chance of being cured. And
(05:23):
so what we've been building at the University of Cincinnati
over the last five years is a program where we
have specialized doctors and specialized nurses and specialized pharmacists, and
we're putting together a team of people who are dedicated
to the care of people with blood cancers. And so
as we've been building this program, we decided this was
(05:43):
the right time to invest in a building that was
dedicated to the needs of those patients, and we've been
excited to open it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
What other treatments are you going to be offering there
at the center, And who are the people that will
fill those beds?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, and so we have thirty in patient beds, we
have quite a few outpatient clinic rooms, and then we
also have chemotherapy and fusion rooms all in the same building.
And so on any given day, there'll be more than
one hundred patients in and out of the building, whether
they're living at home and coming in for treatment or care,
(06:20):
or whether they're having to stay the night in the
hospital for treatments. And that might be patients who need
clinical trials because the drug they took with their local
oncologist wasn't working well. It might be as you set
a bone marrow transplant where to get the best chance
of being cured of their cancer, they needed another person
stem cells to be infused into them, and then everything
(06:43):
in between in terms of standard standard chemotherapy. And we
want that all offered in the same building. We want
that all offered by the same teams, so that we
really get to know our patients well who were going
through a very difficult disease.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
All these great benefits all in one place. Does that
make a difference in how people respond or survive these
blood cancers.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
To get great cancer care, I think you need three things. First,
you need a team right after your diagnose that make
sure that the diagnosis is right and the initial treatment
is right. Second, you need a family and friend and
community support network that can support you both through the
(07:34):
medical side of side effects of treatments, through the emotional side,
coming to visits with you. So those support people are essential.
And then third, you need an ongoing treatment team that's
making sure the medicine is working how it should, that
we continue treatments when they're working, that we stop treatments
when they're not, and that we identify any side effects
(07:56):
early so that we can intervene on those. Having all
of this in one house and one large building for
blood cancer patients allows us to do all three of
those essential things more effectively, and that was our dream
when we decided to build this.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
If someone's hearing this and they're going through this kind
of therapy or treatment, or they will soon, how would
they become affiliated with the Blood center if their doctor
doesn't necessarily come from UC.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And we work with physicians at all different hospitals and
practices throughout the region, and we're happy to see people
either as a second opinion if that's valuable to them
and their physician team, or if they have a disease
where they need to get care from us on an
ongoing basis, and so we communicate and work with all
(08:47):
different doctors around to make that happen.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
So are you excited about the new digs?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh, the patient rooms are beautiful, the inpatient, the outpatient.
Its space is great. I'm most excited about our clinical
trial area, which really gives us much needed space to
grow in that area for patients who need clinical trials.
So yeah, I've been very excited about it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's very good, Very good.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, doctor, thank you so much for being on the
call today and helping us learn more about the University
of Cincinnati's new Blood Cancer Center, which is opening up
on Healing Way there in uptown Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Thanks for all that you do for your patients.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And thank you Sandy.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I really appreciate the time.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Now from the University of Cincinnati's new Blood Cancer Healing
Center to Breast Cancer Research Ride Cincinnati, we'll talk with
the founder and her team coming up next.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
This is iHeart Cincy.
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