The Cancer Center at St. Luke's Clinic provides daily clinics specializing in the detection of melanoma, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer and other sites.

For enhanced diagnostics, a PET (positron emission tomography) scanner has been added to our services - one of the few in the city of Houston. PET technology assists doctors in differentiating between benign and malignant growths in some types of cancer and detecting tumor growth at an earlier stage, thus assisting our cancer specialists in treating these cancers and leading to improved outcomes for cancer patients.

The Cancer Center at St. Luke's also provides cancer education and screening to the community. To help you gain a better understanding of breast cancer's risk factors, the physicians at the Texas Cancer Institute have set up a sample patient profile questionnaire.

The Cancer Center at St. Luke's diagnostic services also include:

• Sentinel lymph node mapping for melanoma and for breast surgery
• PET scanning
• R-2 ImageChecker, digitized radiologic film imaging
• Stereotactic biopsy and fine needle biopsy
• Endoscopic ultrasound
• Three magnetic resonance imaging machines
• Lung cancer screening
• MoleMaxII for skin cancer screening

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States and the incidence of melanoma has risen in the past few years -- accounting for three-fourths of all deaths from skin cancer. If detected early, however, the cancer is treatable and curable. The physicians at the Cancer Center at St. Luke's have developed an online risk assessment test that will calculate your risk for developing skin cancer.

Houston’s first freestanding PET/CT imaging facility, located just outside the Texas Medical Center. PET/CT is advanced imaging that combines the advantages of both positron emission tomography (PET) and transmission computer-assisted tomography (CT).

At St. Luke's Neurophysiology Services, our skilled technologists perform a complete range of pediatric (12 years of age and up), adult and geriatric neurodiagnostic services under the medical direction of board-certified neurologists and neurophysiologists.