Diseases & Treatment
The Cancer Prevention Center offers a wide range of screening and early detection services. To determine which services are best for you, or to schedule an appointment, call (713) 745-8040 or 1-800-438-6434.
Comprehensive Cancer Screening
Thorough cancer prevention examinations include cancer risk assessments, screening exams based on age and gender and personalized risk-reduction strategies.
Site-Specific Cancer Screening
Cancer risk assessment, counseling and screening for the most common types of cancer in adults without symptoms:
- Breast cancer: clinical breast exam and screening mammogram
- Gynecologic cancer: pelvic exam and Pap smear
- Prostate cancer: digital rectal exam and prostate-specific antigen blood test
- Skin cancer: skin exam
- Colorectal cancer: colonoscopy
Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction
Genetic Testing and Risk Counseling: For individuals at increased cancer risk due to a family history of disease. Services include counseling, testing and risk management.
Chemoprevention: Drug therapy to reduce cancer risk in high-risk patients. Research studies are under way for patients at risk for oral, prostate, cervical, lung, colorectal and breast cancers.
Nutrition Counseling: A dietary evaluation with personalized counseling for cancer risk reduction.
Diagnostic Evaluation Services
Undiagnosed Breast Clinic: comprehensive clinical and diagnostic evaluation of breast abnormalities, including a lump or other breast changes.
Undiagnosed Dermatology Clinic: diagnostic evaluation of skin abnormalities, including a change in a mole or freckle or other skin changes.