Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center

Cancer program activities: mbpcc has implemented three comprehensive cancer care program models and assumed certain responsibilities for developing and delivering the cancer care continuum to the local community. Services include cancer prevention, education, early detection, free cancer screening and transportation assistance. During the fiscal year ending june 30, 2024 the cancer programs screened 6,406 people at 169 free cancer screening events. 745 were navigated due to abnormal findings and 40 were diagnosed with cancer. Since 2002, over113,000 people throughout la and ms have been screened for cancer at no cost to participants.

Medical physics residency program: mbpcc plays a significant role in the mary bird perkinis cancer center louisiana state university (mbpcc-lsu) medical physics and health physics program. This academic program provides didactic instruction and clinical and research training to the lsu ms and phd graduate students in medical physics. The lsu medical physics academic program is one of the largest in the country training medical physicists to serve cancer programs nationwide.