Cancer Center at Dignity Health - Mercy Medical Center - Merced, CA

About Cancer Center at Dignity Health - Mercy Medical Center

Our Cancer Center at Dignity Health - Mercy Medical Center is dedicated to delivering high quality, compassionate care to 3850 G St, Merced, CA 95340 and nearby communities. Visit us at or call (209) 564-3600 for more information.

Services We Offer

• Advance Directive Planning
• Clinical Trials
• Financial Counseling
• Interpreter Services
• Nutrition Counseling
• Palliative Pain Management
• Radiant Wraps
• Social Work Services
• Tumor Boards
• Cancer Treatment
• Lung Cancer Screenings

Advance Directive Planning

Advance directive planning is a process that supports adults at any age or stage of health in understanding and sharing their personal values, life goals, and preferences regarding future medical care.

Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are research studies performed in people that are aimed at evaluating a medical, surgical, or behavioral intervention. They are the primary way that researchers find out if a new treatment, like a new drug or diet or medical device is safe and effective in people.

Financial Counseling

A Patient Financial Counselor offers financial advice and assistance to patients regarding medical bills. They are the liaison between patients and their insurance companies; often coordinating payments and answering questions from both parties.

Interpreter Services

Interpreter services are services provided by a professional translator to help facilitate a dialog between two people or parties that speak different languages. The interpreter will pass on messages from the speaker in the language of the listener.

Nutrition Counseling

Nutrition counseling is performed by a nutrition consultant or registered dietician, who work with individuals to set health and nutrition goals and create a diet plan that will help them prevent and treat disease and maintain a good level of health.

Palliative Pain Management

The goal with palliative pain management is to keep the patient as comfortable, symptom-free, and alert as possible during their end-of-life care. This often requires the use of opioid-based pain medication and other strong pain medications that are properly managed.

Radiant Wraps

Radiant wraps are specially made gowns for women to wear when they have radiation treatments for breast cancer. These gowns are made in a wrap style that provides easy access to the front and back and come in a wide range of beautiful colors and patterns.

Social Work Services

Social work services are provided by a social worker. These services are designed to foster social change, development, empowerment, and cohesion of individuals and communities through direct care, clinical services, and the treatment of mental health issues.

Tumor Boards

A tumor board is a group of health care providers with different specialties that discuss cancer cases, share knowledge and determine the best possible cancer treatment for individual patients.

Cancer Treatment

Cancer surgery removes the tumor and nearby tissue during an operation. Surgery is the oldest type of cancer treatment and it is still effective for many types of cancer today.

Lung Cancer Screenings

Lung cancer screening uses low-dose CT scanning, which is a special type of X-ray that takes multiple images of your lungs from various angles This provides a 3-dimensional cross-section of your lungs. It is used to screen for lungs cancer, particularly in current or former smokers over the age of 50.