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Sarah Seymour, RN, a caregiver on the hospital’s oncology unit (11 South), is the 2025 Margaret McLaren Nursing Excellence Award Winner.  McLaren Flint honored Sarah and 21 other nominees at a May 8 ceremony.  The excellence award is named after Margaret McLaren, RN, who served as Superintendent of McLaren General Hospital and its predecessor, the Women’s Hospital, for 27 years. When McLaren General Hospital opened in October 1951, the facility was named in her honor, making it the first hospi...

The Weisberg Cancer Center has almost tripled in size, provides treatment access to more patients. Read the full story

The beautiful wall of hope is completed honoring those who support "Visionaries of a World Free of Cancer." Donate to Karmanos

The brand new front entrance and lobby at Weisberg Cancer Center in Farmington Hills is now open.

The beautiful new canopy for the new entrance way was recently built.    

Today marks an important milestone in Karmanos Cancer Institute's Weisberg Cancer Treatment Center expansion project. Most notably, the annex trailers have been removed and new exam rooms are open. We have increased from 14 to 17 exam rooms. Not only are these rooms larger, but they are also brighter and more aesthetically pleasing, as is the rest of the new facility. Additionally, the back-of-house areas have been improved. A new staff locker room, lunchroom and physician workroom are now open, and the...

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute is the first cancer center in Michigan to acquire and treat patients with the new Leksell Gamma Knife® Icon™ , the most precise stereotactic radiosurgery system (SRS) currently available to patients. This advanced technology and the special space built to accommodate it is part of the recent renovations completed at Karmanos Cancer Institute's outpatient treatment facility in Farmington Hills, Michigan — the Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Cancer Treatment Center. K...

Watch drone footage from Phase 1 of the Weisberg Expansion Project, which included the state-of-the-art Gamma Knife suite.

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute announced today it will expand its Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Cancer Treatment Center in Farmington Hills into a full-service, outpatient oncology center by 2021. “Karmanos Cancer Institute is embarking on this exciting project because of the greater convenience this will provide to our patients and their families,” said Gerold Bepler, M.D., Ph.D., Karmanos President and CEO. “As the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in metro...