Services & Treatments

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    ABUS - breast cancer screening

    Available at McLaren, Invenia ABUS breast cancer screening is specifically developed to help doctors find cancers hidden in dense breast tissue which may be missed by mammography.

     

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    Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART)

    Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART) is the future of personalized radiation therapy. Varian Ethos therapy is an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven holistic solution designed to increase the capability, flexibility and efficiency of radiation therapy.

     

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    Bone Marrow/Stem Cell Transplant

    Karmanos Cancer Institute's Bone Marrow or Stem Cell Program includes specialists who bring years of experience to the field of transplantation. Each patient receives personal attention from the Multidisciplinary Team, which is why our program is one of only a select group nationwide reporting some of the best survival outcomes for related and unrelated stem cell transplantation.

     

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    Brachytherapy

    Brachytherapy is often used to treat prostate cancer and breast cancer. Specialists place radioactive "seeds" at the site of the tumor, enhancing cancer control while minimizing exposure to nearby healthy tissue and vital organs.

     

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    Breast Ultrasound

    A breast ultrasound is often used to examine a suspected change when a mammogram shows dense breast tissues.

     

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    Cancer Rehabilitation

    The Cancer Rehabilitation Program at Karmanos uses an interdisciplinary approach in which different specialties team up to help patients increase improve daily function and well-being.

     

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    Cancer Services

    At McLaren Health Care and our cancer centers, Karmanos Cancer Institute, we pride ourselves on being one of the best cancer treatment systems in the entire country.

     

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    Chemotherapy

    Chemotherapy is the use of one or more specialized anti-cancer drugs to destroy cancer cells.

     

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    Cord Blood Program

    Karmanos Cancer Institute collects, processes, and stores donated umbilical cord blood that becomes a readily available source of stem cells for cancer patients.

     

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    Cryoablation

    Cryoablation, also referred to as cryotherapy, is a minimally invasive procedure that uses extremely cold temperatures to destroy cancer.

     

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    da Vinci Colorectal Cancer Surgery

    Low Anterior Resection (LAR) is a robotic-assisted surgery performed at McLaren that removes the malignant portion of a colon with cancer. Potential benefits can include improved cancer margins.

     

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    da Vinci Thoracic Surgery for Non-small cell lung cancer

    Robot assisted thoracic surgery gives our patients access to better outcomes, including minimal scarring, less pain and bleeding, shorter hospital stays, fewer complications, and a faster recovery.

     

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    da Vinci Urology Surgery

    Learn about Urology procedures performed through da Vinci robot assisted surgery at McLaren that lead to better outcomes and faster recovery.

     

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    DEXA Bone Density Scanning

    Bone DEXA scanning is a simple and noninvasive test that measures bone mineral density that can help you learn about your risk of fracture before you break a bone.

     

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    Digital Mammography

    Screening or diagnostic digital mammography to help discern breast health and irregularities is available at McLaren and Karmanos locations throughout Michigan and Ohio.

     

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    External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)

    External beam radiation therapy comes from a machine that aims radiation at your cancer.

     

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    Gamma Knife

    The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, headquartered in Detroit, is proud to offer the Leksell Gamma Knife® Icon™, the most precise stereotactic radiosurgery system (SRS) currently available. This innovative technology is available at the Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Cancer Treatment Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

     

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    Hormonal Therapy

    Hormonal therapy is the use of hormones to trigger an increase in function or activity of another body part, or increase release of another hormone.

     

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    Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)

    Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is a high precision 3D radiotherapy that uses computer controlled linear accelerators to deliver radiation to a tumor or to specific areas of the tumor.

     

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    Interventional Radiology

    Using real-time images from X-ray, CT, ultrasound or MRI, interventional radiologists guide small instruments through tiny incisions to diagnose and treat a wide variety of medical conditions.