Cancer treatment

Cancer Resource Center

The Lymphedema Clinic

Palliative Care

Cancer conferences

Latest technology available at Baptist East:

• Multidisciplinary lung care clinic
• da Vinci robotic surgical system
• Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy

Clinical trials

• Prevention:
       - SELECT (prostate cancer prevention)
       - STAR (breast cancer patients) 
• Treatment:
  Clinical trials are individualized based on diagnosis and overall health. Baptist Hospital East has a number of clinical trials available through physicians specialized in cancer care.
• FAQs

Chemotherapy

• Cancer chemotherapy

Radiation therapy

• Radiation Center
• The Radiation Oncologist and treatment team
       - Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)
            - FAQs
       - Radioactive seed implantation
       - Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
       - Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)

Surgeries

• Minimally invasive colon cancer surgery
• Laparascopic prostatectomy speeds recovery
• New treatment for liver cancer
• Bone marrow transplant
• Breast lump removal
• Mastectomy
• Prostatectomy
• Pulmonary lobectomy
• Spleen removal
• Thyroidectomy
• Gastrectomy
• Hysterectomy
• Breast reconstruction
• Small bowel resection
• Large bowel resection
• Kidney removal 

For additional information on specific types of cancer, visit cancer overview.