Mayo Magazine

Spring 2007 Features

This issue of Mayo Magazine focuses, among other things, on the Mayo Clinic Specialty Building (MCSB) at our Arizona site. The MCSB is the first step in Mayo Clinic Arizona's master plan to integrate and consolidate patient care on the Phoenix campus, and to create a collaborative biomedical research community on the Scottsdale campus. This issue gives readers a daylong look at the happenings inside the MCSB.

In this issue, we also showcase: two doctors' efforts to improve lung cancer diagnosis; experimental treatments for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that may one day lead to a cure for the 1 million Americans who have with IBD; a feature on the Mayo Clinic Division of Engineering and its 53 members who are proud of their geek status as they work to design miracles in an effort to improve patient care; and a look at how researchers at Mayo Clinic Rochester are using the measles virus to treat ovarian cancer.

This issue also features some of our generous benefactors, whose philanthropic gifts aid in Mayo's ability to lead the way in medical advances. With your help, we can continue to remain loyal to our primary commitment — to provide the best care to every patient every day.

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  Mayo Clinic Specialty Building (MCSB)

  The Mayo Clinic Specialty Building is a product of infinite details and a work of profound generosity. It is being funded almost entirely by benefactors who have contributed about $34 million toward the project. Every beam and girder, switch, cable, socket, doorknob and exam-room light tells a story of choices made with one, and only one, goal in mind — assuring that the needs of the patient come first.

  • Mayo Clinic Specialty Building
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  Two doctors, two instruments

  Determining the stage of cancer is vital to providing the right treatment; however, accurate lung cancer staging has been difficult until recently. Now Mayo Clinic doctors combine efforts and instruments to improve diagnosis.

  • Treatment of Lung Cancer at Mayo Clinic
  • American Lung Association

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