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Video: Gastroenterology Department
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Endoscopy and colonoscopy are minimally invasive, outpatient procedures that we use to help relieve symptoms and treat cancer in our patients. Listen to Dr. Leon Yoder, a gastroenterologist at CTCA, talk about these procedures.
Our Gastroenterology Department attends to the needs of all cancer patients at our hospitals. We specialize in different and minimally invasive treatments that allow us to treat tumors, as well as the troubling symptoms that often accompany cancer and its treatment.
Why We’re Different
The conventional thought is often if you can’t give a patient radiation, chemotherapy or surgery, you’re out of options. At our hospitals, we believe there’s always something you can do. We use some of the latest technologies to look at the gastrointestinal tract in a different and minimally invasive way. We also provide ablative treatments that allow us to treat more cancers and symptoms.
How We Support You
We give you options as soon as you arrive at our hospital. We’ll treat the everyday problems many cancer patients experience, like constipation or diarrhea. We also work with nutrition therapy to help support you in your dietary needs, and so you get the nourishment you need throughout treatment.
Gastroenterology
- Ablation
- Abscess Drainage and Fluid Collection Management
- Angiography
- Angioplasty
- Argon Plasma Coagulation (APC)
- Arterial Infusion Catheter Placement
- Arteriography
- Barium Swallow or Enema
- Biliary Drainage (internal / external stent placement)
- Biopsy
- Bland Tumor Embolization
- Bowel Resection
- Celiac Plexus Neurolysis (CPN) / Celiac Plexus Block
- Chemoembolization
- Chemotherapy
- Chest Tube Placement
- Cholangiopancreatography (see ERCP)
- Colectomy / Colon Resection
- Colon Resection / Colectomy
- Colonoscopy
- Colostomy
- Cyroablation
- CT-Guided Biopsy
- Cystectomy
- Dilation and/or stent placement to relieve obstructions
- Drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts
- Embolization
- Emobolization Venography
- Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS)
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)
- Endoscopy
- Enteral Nutrition
- Enteroscopy
- Epidural Steroid Injection
- Esophageal Variceal Banding
- Esophagectomy
- Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD)
- Feeding Tube Placement
- Fiducial Marker Placement
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Gastrectomy (subtotal, total)
- Gastrointestinal (GI) Procedures (esophagus, stomach, small and large bowel, rectum/anus)
- Hemorrhoidal Banding
- Hepatic Chemoembolization
- Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC)
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy (IAC)
- Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
- Intraoperative Ultrasound
- IVC Filter Placement
- Kyphoplasty
- Laparoscopic Colon Resection
- Laparoscopic Liver Resection
- Liver Function Tests
- Liver Resection
- Microwave Ablation
- Nd: YAG Laser
- Nephrostomy Drainage (external and/or internal)
- Nerve Block
- Nutrition Therapy / Metabolic Support
- Pancreas Resection
- Partial Hepatectomy
- Percutaneous Gastrostomy / Gastrojejunostomy
- Percutaneous Image-Guided Biopsy
- Percutaneous Nephrostomy / Nephrostomy Drainage
- Percutaneous Nephroureteral Stenting
- Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)
- PICC Lines
- Proctectomy
- Protectomy (Rectum Resection)
- Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
- Rectum Resection (Protectomy)
- Spiral Computed Tomography (CT)
- SpyGlass™ (Cholangioscopy)
- Stent Placement / Removal
- TheraSphere®
- Thoracentesis
- Thrombectomy
- Thrombolysis
- TomoTherapy® HI-ART
- Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
- Transhepatic Biliary Drainage and Internal Stenting
- Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS)
- Trellis® Peripheral Infusion System
- Trilogy™
- Tumor Molecular Profiling
- Ultrasound
- Ureteral Stenting
- Vascular Access Devices
- Venography
- Venous Angioplasty / Stenting
- Vertebroplasty / Vertebral Ablation (see Kyphoplasty)
- Video Capsule Endoscopy
- Wedge Resection
- Whipple Procedure
