University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, is nationally ranked in seven adult specialties and one pediatric specialty, and it is rated high performing in two adult specialties and two procedures and conditions. It is a cancer treatment center. It is a teaching facility. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, founded in 1941, specializes in cancer research, treatment, and prevention. MD Anderson has locations in or near Nassau Bay, Katy, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, and Memorial City, in addition to its main campus at the Texas Medical Center, and it has a gynecologic oncology clinic at the Woman's Hospital of Texas. At the same time, it collaborates with other institutions around the world as part of its MD Anderson Cancer Network.
New patients are typically treated at one of the hospital's multidisciplinary care centers or clinics. Doctors at the hospital's Colorectal Center, for example, use minimally invasive robotic and laparoscopic surgery, proton therapy, targeted chemotherapies, radiation therapies, and other techniques to treat patients with colon, rectal, and anal cancers. Meanwhile, the Lyda Hill Cancer Prevention Center at the hospital provides screenings for common cancers such as breast, skin, and lung cancer. There are also a number of specialty clinics at the center, such as the Undiagnosed Gynecology Clinic and the Healthy Living Clinic. The hospital provides free tobacco cessation services to cancer patients who are smokers or have recently quit.
Detailed information:
Add: 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030
Hotline: +1 877-632-6789
Website: mdanderson.org
Facebook: facebook.com/MDAnderson
