Chemotherapy - Brooklyn's SUNY Downstate MB-CCOP

What to expect

Most chemotherapy is given through the vein at the chemotherapy unit. On the day of the chemotherapy appointment, a patient should arrive at the chemotherapy unit early in the morning and register. Laboratory blood tests will be done (sometimes these blood tests are done in the morning of the day before chemotherapy). If the results of the blood tests suggest the patient’s clinical condition is satisfactory to receive chemotherapy, he/she will receive chemotherapy that morning. Chemotherapy usually will be completed by late morning to early afternoon.

Sometimes a patient has to take dexamethasone (a steroid) before chemotherapy. Please remember to do so as directed and remember to take the morning dose before coming to the chemotherapy unit.

Where to go

Chemotherapy

Nurses at UHB chemotherapy unit:

University Hospital of Brooklyn (UHB)

Please use the 470 Clarkson Avenue entrance to come to the UHB chemotherapy unit.

Please arrive at 8:30AM in the morning of chemotherapy. A patient should first register at the cashier right inside the entrance, and then go to the Ambulatory Chemotherapy Unit.

The UHB Ambulatory Chemotherapy Unit is located in Room A6-424 (on the sixth floor of UHB behind Nursing Station 62).

Telephone: 718-270-2284.

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Kings County Hospital Center (KCHC)

Please use the Building B entrance to come to the KCHC chemotherapy unit..

Please arrive at 8:00AM in the morning of chemotherapy. A patient should go to the Chemotherapy Unit directly and register at the unit.

The KCHC chemotherapy unit is located in Building A, Third Floor, Unit 3A

Telephone: 718-245-3753.

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