The team at Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute provides early detection, expert diagnosis, personalized treatment options, and survivorship support to every patient. It’s what Saint Luke’s calls precision medicine: the right treatment for the right patient at the right time.

We offer the region’s only precision oncology program for advanced cancers that’s staffed by clinical oncologists with expertise in genomic sequencing and computational biology. With our clinical trial agreement with the internationally recognized Washington University School of Medicine, we can offer more than 200 National Cancer Institute-sponsored clinical trials and industry-led studies to Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute patients.

Personalized Cancer Treatment

Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute offers options for patients at every stage in their cancer journey:

Second Opinions

When it comes to potentially life-changing or lifesaving treatments, patients and their families often seek a second opinion. Second opinions can provide:

  • Confirmation of a diagnosis
  • More details about type of cancer and stage, which affect treatment options
  • Perspective from subspecialized oncologists

If you started your cancer journey at another facility, the experts at Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute are available to review your records and provide a thoughtful second opinion, including personalized treatment options available at Saint Luke’s.


Classes and Events

  • Gilda’s Club Kansas City
  • Look Good Feel Better
  • Breast Cancer Support Groups
  • Nutrition for Cancer Survivorship 
  • Dr. Jeffrey Wieman Cancer Prevention Lecture Series 

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Clinical Trials Available at Saint Luke's

For more information about clinical trials at Saint Luke's Cancer Institute, call 816-932-2677.

Advanced Solid Tumor
  • EAY131 Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice (MATCH)
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  • A Prospective Registry Study to Evaluate the Efficacy of Personalized Medicine on Advanced Solid Tumors
Breast Cancer
  • SGNTUC-025-A single arm, open label phase 2 study of tucatinib in combination with trastuzumab deruxtecan in subjects with previously treated unresectable locally-advanced or metastatic Her2+ breast cancer
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  • Seattle Genetics SGNTUC-016 Seattle Genetics Phase 3 clinical trial of tucatinib or placebo in combination with ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) for subjects with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic HER2+ breast cancer (SGNTUC-016)
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  • Single Arm, Open Label Phase 1b/2 Study of SGN-LIV1A in Combination With Pembrolizumab for First-Line Treatment of Patients With Unresectable Locally-Advanced or Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
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GI
  • A021703 Randomized double-blind Phase III trial of Vitamin D3 supplementation in patients with previously untreated metastatic colorectal cancer (SOLARIS)
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  • A221805-Duloxetine to prevent oxaliplatin-induced chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy: randomized double blind placebo-controlled phase II to Phase III study
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  • BESPOKE Study of ctDNA Guided Therapy in Colorectal Cancer
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GI (Pancreatic)
  • EA2186 A randomized phase II study of gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel copared with 5-FU, leucovorin, and liposomal irinotecan in older patients with treatment naive metastatic pancreatic cancer (GIANT)
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GU (Urothelial)
  • A Phase 3, Open-label, Randomized Study of Nivolumab Combined With Ipilimumab, or With Standard of Care Chemotherapy, Versus Standard of Care Chemotherapy in Participants With Previously Untreated Unresectable or Metastatic Urothelial Cancer (CheckMate901)
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Lung Cancer
  • Pacific 4: Phase III, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, double-blind, multi-center, international study of durvalumab following stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for the treatment of patients with unresected Stage I/II, lymph node-negative NSCLC
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  • Adjuvant Lung Cancer Enrichment Marker Identification and Sequencing Trial (ALCHEMIST)
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  • A Randomized Phase III Trial for Surgically Resected Early Stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: Crizotinib Versus Observation for Patients With Tumors Harboring the Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) Fusion Protein
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  • Integration of Immunotherapy into Adjuvant Therapy for Resected NSCLC: ALCHEMIST Chemo-IO
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  • Lung Map: Master Protocol for Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
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