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Please note: Effective May 1, 2025, Illinois CancerCare will no longer accept cash payments.

Payments for Retail Pharmacy Prescriptions can be made over the phone at 309-243-3404. Payments can also be made with Visa, Mastercard, Discover or in person with a check or money order at any of our Illinois CancerCare Retail Pharmacy locations.

Thank you for your understanding!

The highly trained Illinois CancerCare Pharmacy team is a crucial part of our collaborative approach to comprehensive cancer care. Our pharmacy is made up of over 60 staff members who are trained on all treatment options and focus on four primary areas – retail specialty pharmacy, clinical pharmacy, infusion (IV) pharmacy and investigational drug services (drug trials). The team also includes couriers and shuttle drivers who provide additional patient services.

Click here to learn more about how we ensure that you have a safe treatment and recovery experience.

Specialty Pharmacy
07/01/2029

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Our retail pharmacy locations in Peoria, Bloomington, Galesburg, Pekin, Peru and Washington provide outpatient prescription filling services, counseling, and insurance billing for patients. Our Peoria pharmacy is proud to maintain two specialty pharmacy accreditations. We stock many hard-to-find cancer and blood medications, and will special order other medications for patients as needed.

The Illinois CancerCare Pharmacy accepts most prescription insurance plans, and has a team dedicated to making medication affordable for our patients. Both Peoria clinic and satellite clinic patients may choose to fill their all of their prescriptions with us. Delivery by courier or shipping can be arranged depending on the patient’s location.

Our IV Prep area provides medications for patients at the Peoria Cancer Center using an automated medication management system. There is also a state-of-the-art sterile clean room in which all patient parenteral medications (i.e. injectable chemotherapy) are prepared, safety checked, and monitored. IV Prep staff members also assist in chemotherapy preparation at our satellite locations.

Our staff includes an experienced, board-certified oncology pharmacist and six additional pharmacists to provide clinical services tailored to patient care needs. Types of services available to our physicians include pharmacokinetic monitoring, pharmacokinetic dosing, and drug-interaction checking. Our pharmacists are also available to provide drug information to patients and answer questions related to chemotherapy treatment at any time.

One of the most important – and meaningful – roles the professionals in our accredited pharmacy fill is as a source of knowledge and compassion for our patients. We offer a monitoring system designed to follow up with you on a regular basis, ensuring you are able to take your medicines as prescribed and discussing any concerns or side effects.

This area offers services to support our clinical research department. The pharmacy prepares and dispenses provided drugs for clinical trial patients.

Our pharmacy team is often able to answer your questions immediately, while other concerns may need to be addressed with your physician or advanced practice nurse (APN). Since we provide patient-centered care that emphasizes collaboration across all specialty areas, we are usually able to get answers from your healthcare provider quickly and respond in a short amount of time. With mutual respect between the medical and pharmacy teams, we deliver a superior level of care to our patients.

The entire Illinois CancerCare team is dedicated to providing you with the most appropriate treatment in a safe and supportive manner. Even though we are a large organization staffed with top-notch professionals, we truly feel like a small and loving family. We encourage you to reach out to our compassionate and well-equipped pharmacy staff with any question at any time.

  • Peoria – 309.240.6890
    Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm
    Located in the Peoria Cancer Center, on the first floor, behind the main staircase
  • Bloomington – 309.243.3018
    Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm (Closed 12:30-1:00pm)
    3105 Magory Drive, Bloomington, IL 61704
  • Galesburg – 309.243.3017
    Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm (Closed 12:30-1:00pm)
    336 Home Boulevard, Galesburg, IL 61401
  • Peru – 309.243.3019
    Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm (Closed 12:30-1:00pm)
    4391 Venture Drive, Peru, IL 61354
  • Pekin – 309.243.3014
    Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm (Closed 12:30-1:00pm)
    1641 Broadway Street, Pekin, IL 61554 (Next to Kroger)
  • Washington – 309.243.3016
    Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm (Closed 12:30-1:00pm)
    110 Eastgate Drive, Washington, IL 61571

Understanding Our Pharmacy

Frequently Asked Questions About Our Pharmacy

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There is a lot of care going in to the behind the scenes preparation of your chemotherapy treatment. Your pharmacy and nursing staff provide many services including built-in safety checks that ensure the right patient receives the right drug at the right dose at the right time. Our service also includes patient-specific preparation of every treatment. Treatments are made to order, only after labs, order, and product selection have been checked. Most of our medications require special handling, both to protect the sterility of the product for patient safety and to protect the preparer and the facility from the toxicity of the product. Accuracy and safety is of the utmost importance in preparing your individualized treatment.

Be very cautious about using dietary supplements while on active treatment for cancer. Several recent studies have shown that cancer patients taking antioxidants have had poorer outcomes than patients who did not. Consider that one of the ways chemo works is to deny cancer cells the necessary building blocks they need to divide and make more cells. By taking many vitamins and supplements at high doses, patients may be providing the cancer everything it needs to get “around” the chemo and survive. Herbal medications have the added potential to actually interfere or block the chemotherapy. A recent study that was attempting to show the benefits of green tea for cancer patients accidentally found that drinking green tea while taking chemotherapy actually inactivated the drug bortezomib. Without that study, the patients would have been unaware that the tea they were drinking was interfering with their chemo doses and rendering them harmless to the cancer.

The answer is…it depends. One way to answer when a drug will be out of your system refers to half-life. So if you are wondering when our lab would be unable to detect any trace of your chemotherapy in the tissues of your body, it would depend on the half-life of that drug. Because that is a characteristic of each drug, this could range from minutes to weeks. However, many times, what patients really want to know when they ask this question is when they will begin to clear the drug so they start to feel better from the side effects. In that case, the answer is most acute effects of chemotherapy resolve within 2-5 days of treatment. If you do not feel better at this time, or if your side effects are difficult to manage at any time, please talk to your physician or even your nurse. Many supportive care medications are available to assist patients with the side effects of chemotherapy.

Every home infusion pump has a sticker with our 24-hour hotline printed on it. Do not be afraid to call the 800-number on the pump. The hotline is staffed by trained nursing staff experienced with the pumps we provide.

Biosimilars are safe and effective medications for treating many illnesses such as chronic skin and bowel diseases (like psoriasis, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease and colitis), arthritis, kidney conditions, and cancer.

Biosimilars are FDA-approved biologic medications that are compared to another medication – the original biologic.

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