Columbia Herbert Irving Cancer Center - Bladder Cancer Program

What do general surgery and specialized oncology share beside hallmarks of precision? The Columbia Herbert Irving Cancer Center - Bladder Cancer Program sits on the 12th to 16th floors of its main building — not far above the operating suites that support its advanced care. You’ll find 161 Fort Washington Avenue a refined address in Washington Heights, where the Upper Manhattan skyline meets century-old hospital corridors.

The program pairs targeted bladder prescreening with genetic counseling; it layers systemic pharmacotherapy over radiologic mapping of presurgical fields — a sequence refined quarterly by newly published clinical trials. These include checkpoint inhibition, intravesical gene therapy, and protocols for laparoscopic partial cystectomy; each line of treatment sits two blocks north of busy Broadway, crosstown to New York-Presbyterian’s quads.

Patient navigation starts in the administrative suite overlooking the Hudson; paperwork folds seamlessly into a custom chemotherapy flow sheet, and nurse coordinators circle back same-day with scan translations. Meanwhile, a dedicated bladder pharmacy stocks intravesical BCG at 12°C and hepatic-arterial pumps for perioperative infusion.

A final touch — easy to miss — the public link beneath every sign: bring a MetroCard, follow the 1-A elevator to 12, and dial (212) 305-5098 for timelines you can pencil in without the anvil above expediting results. Find the brown-brick tower among the Upper West Side brownstones, then cut straight west five blocks to the Hudson; the program remains at 161 Fort Washington Avenue. Consult this map to plot your route against the dealership traffic: https://www.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x89c2f732e4e212c5:0xcf32c851d159c1af.