Cancer treatments and procedures

Specialists at Ascension Providence provide advanced cancer treatments and procedures based on your diagnosis and care plan

Cancer treatments and procedures in Waco

Your care team at Ascension Providence in Texas recommends treatments based on the type of cancer, stage and your overall health. Your cancer treatment plan may include:

Places a radioactive source inside or near a tumor to deliver targeted radiation while limiting exposure to nearby healthy tissue

Removes cancer while preserving as much of the breast as possible

Delivers chemotherapy directly to a tumor while cutting off its blood supply

Removes skin cancer while preserving as much healthy tissue as possible

Uses a thin, flexible tube with a camera and specialized tools to diagnose or treat conditions in the head, neck and gastrointestinal tract

Uses a small camera inside a capsule you swallow to take images of the digestive tract

Blocks or lowers hormones that help certain cancers grow, including breast, prostate, thyroid, endometrial and adrenal cancers. Sometimes hormone therapy involves surgically removing the gland that's making the hormones.

Uses a hollow needle to remove small samples of breast tissue for testing, often with imaging guidance

Minimally invasive surgery that uses robotic technology for greater precision and smaller incisions, similar to a laparoscopy

Connects you and your family with resources that support your emotional, practical and day-to-day needs throughout diagnosis, treatment and recovery

Uses small incisions, a camera and specialized instruments or robotic technology to perform surgery in the chest with greater precision

Delivers radioactive beads directly to liver tumors while reducing their blood supply

If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency, go directly to the ER or call 911.

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