Feist-Weiller Cancer Center
The State of Louisiana Board of Regents created the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center in 1993, and to this day, it remains an integral part of the LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. The center was originally known as LSU's Center of Excellence in Cancer Research, Treatment, and Education.
The reason for the creation of the Cancer Center was two-fold: firstly, the population cared for by the LSU Hospital would too often present with late stages of cancer (the population was plagued with high rates of poverty; low literacy and low levels of education; and little access to modern approaches to prevention, detection and treatment of cancer); secondly, although excellent scientific approaches to cancer problems were available in the area, there were relatively few local translational cancer researchers and little interaction between the clinical arena and the basic science arena.
The Center was renamed the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center in 1997 after donations made to honor the Feist and Weiller families.
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