Treatments Offered at Eastern
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CTCA at Eastern Regional Medical Center (Eastern) offers advanced, whole-person treatment options to fight cancer on all fronts. Your multidisciplinary care team delivers leading-edge conventional therapies in combination with supportive complementary medicine therapies—all under one roof.
The following list contains just some of the innovative treatment options available at Eastern:
Diagnostics: Imaging & Lab Tests
- Angiography with 3D CT
- Biopsy
- Blood & Urine Tests
- CellSearch™ CTC Test
- Computed Tomography (CT) Scan
- Multi-Slice CT Scan
- Dexa Scan
- Flow Cytometry
- Interventional Radiology Suite
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Mammography
- Digital Mammography Unit
- Mammography computer-aided detection
- Nuclear Medicine Imaging
- Point of Care Testing (POCT): Blood draws and lab testing performed at bedside/exam room
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
- PET/CT scan
- Tumor Markers
- Tumor Molecular Profiling
- Ultrasound: cardiac (echocardiogram), vascular and general
- X-Ray
Advanced Cancer Treatments & Technologies
Surgical Procedures
- Breast Conservation Surgery
- Breast Reconstruction
- Colon Resection
- Laparoscopic Colon Resections
- Cystectomy
- Debulking (Cytoreductive) Surgery
- Diagnostic/Staging Surgery
- Endoscopy
- Excisions/Resections
- Esophagectomies
- Gastrectomy
- Head and Neck Surgery
- Laproscopic Liver Resection
- Lobectomy
- Kyphoplasty
- Laparoscopic Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Ocular Surgery
- Orthopedic Oncology Procedures
- Palliative Surgery
- Pancreas Resection
- Prostatectomy
- Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
- Sentinel Node Biopsy
- Thyroidectomies
- Vertebroplasty (see Kyphoplasty)
- Whipple Surgery
Radiation Therapies
- Calypso® 4D Localization System™/GPS for the Body®
- Deep Tissue Hyperthermia
- External Beam Radiation Therapy
- High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
- Large Bore CT/RT with Simulation
- Local Hyperthermia
- Mammosite ® RTS
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS)
- 3D Conformal Radiation
- TomoTherapy® HI-ART
- Trilogy™
- TheraSphere®
- Varian® Linear Accelerator with Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Respiratory Gating, RapidArc and SBRT
Chemotherapies
- Chemoembolization
- Metronomic Chemotherapy
- Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy (IAC)
- Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (IPC)
- Intrathecal Chemotherapy
- Intravenous Chemotherapy
- Tumor Molecular Profiling
Immunotherapies / Biotherapies
- Hematopoietic Growth Factors
- Hormone Therapy
- Interferons
- Interleukins
- Monoclonal Antibodies
- Ovarian Cancer Vaccine
- Provenge®
- Yervoy™ (for metastatic melanoma)
- Vaccines
Interventional Radiology
- Angiography / Angioplasty / Stent Placement / Thrombectomy
- Biliary Drainage
- Bland Tumor Embolization
- Celiac Plexus Block
- Chemoembolization
- Chest Tube Placement
- Embolization Venography
- Epidural Steroid Injection
- Hepatic Chemoembolization
- IVC Filter Placement
- Kyphoplasty
- Joint Injection
- Microwave Ablation
- Nerve Root Block
- Paracentesis
- Percutaneous Gastrostomy / Gastrojejunostomy
- Percutaneous Image-Guided Biopsy
- Percutaneous Nephrostomy
- Percutaneous Nephroureteral Stenting
- Portal Vein Embolization
- Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
- Thoracentesis
- Transhepatic Biliary Drainage and Internal Stenting
- Ureteral Stenting
- Vascular Access
- Venography
- Venous Angioplasty / Stenting
- Vertebroplasty / Vertebral Ablation
Interventional Pulmonology Procedures & Tests
- Airway Stents
- All Digital: Portable Fluoroscopy and X-Rays
- Argon Plasma Coagulation
- Balloon Bronchoplasty
- Bronchoscopies
- Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy
- Rigid Ventilating Bronchoscopy & Flexible Bronchoscopy
- Super-Dimension GPS Bronchoscopy
- CT Respiratory Gating
- Cryotherapy
- Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS)
- HAST High Altitude Simulation Testing
- High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy of the lung
- Interventional Angiography
- Lung Capacity Studies
- Medical Pleuroscopy
- Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)
- PDT with cold laser tumor-specific tissue destruction
- Pleurodesis
- Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT)
- Spirometry
- Lung Capacity Studies
- Diffusion Analysis
- Methacholine Airway Challenge
- Thoracentesis and Pleural Biopsy
- Nd: YAG Laser
- Quantitative Ventilation Perfusion Studies
Critical Care
- Intensive Care Unit
- Invasive and Minimally Invasive Monitoring
- National Protocol Development (Prone Positioning and Controlled Therapeutic Hypothermia)
- Direct Patient Care
- Respiratory Therapy Medical Directorship
Sleep Medicine
Orthopedic Oncology
- Excisions/Resections
- Fracture Care
- Joint/Hip Replacement
- Limb Salvage Surgery
- Rodding
- Palliative Surgery
