Suspicion of Cancer Program
MD Anderson 's Suspicion of Cancer Program places a new emphasis on risk assessment, and early detection of cancer. Our mission is to improve early and more accurate cancer diagnosis and contribute to the body of knowledge about cancer. The program focuses on detection of disease at an earlier and more curable stage by providing timely and accurate cancer diagnosis and aggressive treatment.
We have an outstanding and caring staff of physicians, nurses and other professionals. Our patient care is research driven, so we offer options others do not. Our clinics are multidisciplinary, so several minds come together to benefit each patient. A partial list of services provided by our physicians, nurses, and other caregivers are:
- diagnostic testing with state-of-art technology to provide accurate and timely
diagnosis for patients - evaluation of patients referred by their physicians due to cancer symptoms
- diagnosis of self-referred patients who have been told they have a possible
diagnosis of cancer - our clinical trials offer treatment opportunities for difficult or aggressive tumors, and
today's successes are tomorrow's new cancer therapies
Our specialists work closely with teams of physicians from other departments to provide
the best and most recent developments in cancer treatment for our patients. Patients with
cancer diagnosis have the option of receiving treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center
or returning to their referring physicians, or oncologist of choice. MD Anderson utilizes
the combined compassion, skills and talent of its forces to battle cancer and to make a
difference in the lives of our patients.