Cancer Center at St. Luke's Administrative Office - The O'Quinn Medical Tower   6624 Fannin, Suite 1185 Houston, TX 77030

Oncology Clinic, Melanoma Center, Outpatient Infusion & Radiation Center - Kirby Glen Center  2457 S. Braeswood Houston, TX 77030

The mission of the Cancer Center at St. Luke's is to provide high quality, personalized cancer care to each patient through a full range of integrated, state-of-the-art services, ministering to the whole patient: body, mind and spirit.

The physicians of the Cancer Center at St. Luke's encourage you to become actively involved in your healthcare. To help you, they have developed risk assessments and questionnaires about cancer.

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Diagnostic Services
Diagnostic services available at the Cancer Center at St. Luke's include rapid access and availability to cancer specialists-both for referred patients and for self-referrals and coordinated care by an oncology certified nurse. Our Kirby Glen location, one mile from the hospital, offers convenient access to CT scan, MRI and radiologic diagnostic procedures.

Diagnostic Imaging
St. Luke’s all-digital diagnostic studies mean lower-dosage radiation, shorter exam time, fewer callbacks and faster results.
Images can be sent electronically to requesting physicians and to radiologists in the Texas Medical Center, including mammography experts at St. Luke's and pediatric radiologists at Texas Children's Hospital. Voice recognition reporting translates to quicker report delivery to primary care physicians and faster treatment for patients.

General diagnostic testing includes radiology, ultrasound, CT scan, MRI, nuclear medicine and pulmonary function testing. Women's services comprise bone density, body composition studies, mammography, breast ultrasound and biopsy, breast MR and biopsy, and steriotactic exams.

The department offers a number of specialty services, including vascular and non-vascular interventional radiology. Kyphoplasty, a minimally invasive spinal surgery procedure used to treat vertebral compression fractures, also is offered at St. Luke’s.

 
Treatment Options
The Cancer Center at St. Luke's Institute offers an Outpatient Infusion Center at St. Luke's Diagnostic and Treatment Center - Kirby Glen. St. Luke's Radiation Oncology offers consults and radiation treatments. The clinic at The O'Quinn Medical Tower offers a nurse coordinator and access to oncology physician specialists to assist each patient.
 
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To help you learn more about cancer, St. Luke's has provided links to other stories and web sites that may have additional useful information.  Please note that many of these links will lead to other sites on the Internet.  St. Luke's has not reviewed all of the information on these sites and makes no warranty as to their accuracy.
 
Clinical Trials
The Cancer Center at St. Luke's offers patients access to frontline cancer research by providing clinical trials led by physician investigators specializing in oncology. St. Luke's also offers cancer screening for individuals at high risk for cancer. Investigators offer national clinical studies, as well as original hospital-based studies.
 
Latest Cancer News
St. Luke's provides you with up-to-date health and medical news from Reuters Health.  Read about the latest developments in treatment, diagnosis and research in the field of cancer.