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"LOC offers an outstanding service in the field of cancer treatment. We are delighted that the expertise and facilities of the clinic are available to BUPA members"

Dr Natalie-Jane Macdonald, Managing Director of BUPA UK health insurance business.

What patients say about LOC Will there be a cure for cancer? Why LOC started Why are LOC different The LOC experience

A patient’s verdict on their experience at LOC has far more meaning than any words we might write. Click on the image to the right to see and hear a brief summary of the views of five of our patients.

To hear more of each individual patient’s experience, in their own words, complete and unedited, click here

The other tabs above will each download videos featuring our founder partners discussing whether there will be a cure for cancer, why LOC was founded, why we are different, and, together with our Head of Clinical Services, what the patient experience is like at LOC

Will there be a cure for cancer? The four LOC founder consultants, each an acknowledged expert in their specialist field, give a fascinating cross-section of views on what a ‘cure’ for cancer will really mean. Taken together, this is an uplifting insight into the future of cancer treatment.

Hear why the founders of LOC decided in 2005 to open a new oncology clinic, and what they aimed to achieve on behalf of patients. Click here for Dr Peter Harper describing the LOC vision and here for Professor Paul Ellis explaining how clinical standards are protected and constantly improved.

LOC isn't just about delivering chemotherapy treatment, it is about putting the patient at the very centre of everything, and then supporting the whole patient. LOC is also about using technology in a unique way to provide a better service for the patient. Three of the LOC partners offer their own views on why it isn’t quite like any other oncology clinic.

Dr Peter Harper
Professor Paul Ellis
Dr Maurice Slevin

What’s it like, being a patient at LOC? What happens the very first time you have a consultation? How do they prepare you the patient for treatment, and what does that involve? What are their nurses like – after all, you see more of them than anyone else? What happens once treatment finishes – what other kinds of support are available?

Dr Peter Harper
Dr Maurice Slevin

Patients

You are probably visiting this website either because you have recently been diagnosed as having cancer, or because you are a relative, friend or carer of someone who has received such a diagnosis.

You may be trying to find out what the options are for treatment and how they may be accessed; you may be seeking a second opinion; or you may just want the reassurance of understanding better the implications of a diagnosis. We hope our site will help you.

We know from our own extensive experience in treating and talking to people with cancer, and their relatives, friends and carers, that you are likely to be seeking two things.

First, you want to find the very best treatment possible, using the latest techniques and the most advanced drugs. Second, at this time more than any other in your life, you need to be treated as an individual in a caring and supportive way, not as a patient-number being hurried through an anonymous process.

News

As LOC expands to other parts of the UK, there will be a need for ‘LOC’ to stand for something more than just a London base...

During Summer 2010 LOC ran its first pilot programme of support for patients post-treatment...

LOC will build on its expansion in Spring 2011 by opening a new chemotherapy clinic at The Wellington Hospital’s amazing new out-patient centre, The Platinum Building, in St John’s Wood...

LOC is to be a partner in a new drug research and development centre, Sarah Cannon UK, to be opened next door at 93 Harley St in early 2011...

Every year medical meetings take place around the world to discuss the latest advances in clinical research...