Treatments Offered at Southwestern
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CTCA at Southwestern Regional Medical Center (Southwestern) offers the best of conventional cancer treatments, such as surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Yet, we go beyond these disciplines to treat the whole person—not just the disease. Your multidisciplinary care team also offers complementary medicine therapies to support you throughout your care.
The following list contains just some of the innovative treatment options available at Southwestern:
Diagnostics: Imaging & Lab Tests
- Angiography with 3D CT
- Discovery™ PET/CT 600 Scanner
- Computed Tomography (CT)
- Multidetector CT scanner
- Siemens multi-modality workstation
- GE 16-slice CT scanner
- Spiral CT
- Extreme Drug Resistance
- Flow Cytometry
- Interventional Radiology Suite
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- MR-guided breast biopsy
- MR computer-aided detection
- Mammography
- Digital Mammography Unit
- Mammography computer-aided detection
- Natural Killer Cells
- Nuclear medicine imaging
- Miraluma Breast 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
- Ultrasound: Cardiac (echocardiogram), vascular and general
- X-Ray
Advanced Cancer Treatments & Technologies
Surgical Procedures
- Breast Conservation Surgery
- Breast Reconstruction
- Diagnostic/Staging Surgery
- ERBEJET™ 2
- Excisions/Resections
- Kyphoplasty/Vertebroplasty
- Palliative Surgery
- Radiofrequency Ablation
- Reconstructive Surgery
- Sentinel Node Biopsy
Chemotherapies
- Chemoembolization
- Chemotherapy Resistance Testing
- Chronotherapy
- Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy
- Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
- Metronomic/Fractionated-Dose Chemotherapy
Radiation Therapies
- Large Bore CT/RT With Simulation
- Local Hyperthermia
- External Beam Radiation
- High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- MammoSite® RTS
- TheraSphere®
- 3D Conformal Radiation
- TomoTherapy® HI-ART
Biotherapies / Immunotherapies
Interventional Pulmonology Procedures & Tests
- Agon Plasma Coagulation (APC)
- Airway Stents
- All Digital: Portable Fluoroscopy and X-Rays
- Balloon Bronchoplasty
- Bronchoscopies (Rigid/Flexible/Laser)
- Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy
- Navigational Bronchoscopy
- CT Respiratory Gating
- Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS)
- HAST Testing-High Altitude Simulation
- Interventional Angiography
- Lung Capacity Studies
- Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)
- Pluerodesis
- Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT)
- SPY Glass
- Thoracentesis
- Transbroncial Needle Aspiration
- YAG Laser
