Baptist Hospital East services

• Baptist East Women's Imaging Services
       - Mammopad® offers softer, warmer mammogram    
       - Breast MRI enhances breast cancer detection
       - Digital mammography
• Baptist East Diagnostic Imaging Center in Middletown
       - Mammopad® offers softer, warmer mammogram
       - Digital mammography
• Baptist East PET/CT Center (Baptist BodyScan)
       - What is PET/CT?           

Early detection

• Striving for early diagnosis
• Avoid colorectal cancer: early detection is key
• Breast self-examination
• Breast cancer detection: upping your odds for survival
• Computer helps radiologists double-check mammograms to aid in early breast cancer detection

Signs and symptoms

• Seven warning signs of cancer
• For men only: prostate cancer
• What every woman should know about ovarian cancer
• Abdominal bloating
• Abdominal pain
• Abdominal mass
• Back pain - low
• Glands - swollen
• Leukoplakia
• Bladder outlet obstruction
• Incontinence
• Pituitary tumor
• Armpit lump
• Breast lump
• Breast pain
• Urine - abnormal color
• Cough
• Coughing up blood
• Breath odor
• Mouth ulcers
• Neck lump
• Neck pain
• Stools - bloody
• Tongue problems
• Ovarian growth worries
• Biliary obstruction
• Scrotal masses
• Testicle pain
• Testicle lump
• Cervical dysplasia
• Genital warts
• Vaginal bleeding between periods
• Aging changes in skin
• Epithelium
• Fair skin cancer risks
• Liver spots
• Sunburn
• Xeroderma pigmentosa

Tests

• Abdominal CT scan
• Abdominal exploration
• Angiography of the head
• Biopsy
• Biopsy - abdominal wall fat pad
• Biopsy - adrenal gland
• Biopsy - biliary tract
• Biopsy - bladder
• Biopsy - bone marrow
• Biopsy - breast
• Biopsy - brush - urinary tract
• Biopsy - carpal tunnel
• Biopsy - cervical punch
• Biopsy - colposcopy-directed
• Biopsy - cone
• Biopsy - endometrium
• Biopsy - gingiva (gums)
• Biopsy - heart
• Biopsy - kidney
• Biopsy - liver
• Biopsy - lung - transtracheal (transbronchial)
• Biopsy - lymph nodes
• Biopsy - mouth or throat
• Biopsy - muscle
• Biopsy - nasal mucosa
• Biopsy - nerve
• Biopsy - open lung
• Biopsy - open pleura
• Biopsy - parathyroid
• Biopsy - polyps
• Biopsy - rectum
• Biopsy - salivary gland
• Biopsy - skin
• Biopsy - skinny-needle
• Biopsy - small bowel
• Biopsy - synovial membrane
• Biopsy - testicle
• Biopsy - tongue
• Biopsy - upper airway
• Biopsy of the cervix
• Bone marrow aspiration
• Bone marrow biopsy
• Bone marrow culture
• Bone X-Ray
• Blood differential
• Breast Ultrasound
• Bronchoscopy
• Complete blood count (CBC)
• Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)
• Cell surface antigen studies (B-cell - leukemia/lymphoma panel)
• Chest CT
• Chest MRI
• Chest X-ray
• Colonoscopy
• Cold knife cone biopsy
• Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cell count
• CSF total protein
• Computed tomography (CT)
• CT chest
• CT head
• CT lungs
• Cytology exam of pleural fluid
• Digital rectal exam
• Electroencephalogram (EEG)
• Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
• Endoscopy
• Fecal occult blood test - flushable home test
• Fecal occult blood test - guaiac smear
• Fecal occult blood test (FOBT)
• Gallium (Ga.) scan
• Intravenous pyelogram
• Liver function tests
• Lung needle biopsy
• Lung needle biopsy culture
• Lymphangiogram
• Kidney function tests
• Male self-examination
• Mammogram - recommended age
• Mammography
• Mediastinoscopy with biopsy
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• MRI - abdomen
• MRI - chest
• MRI - head
• MRI - heart
• Pap smear
• Pleural needle biopsy
• Prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP)
• Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)
• Parathyroid hormone-related (PTH) protein in (blood)
• Radionuclide cystogram
• Sentinel lymph node biopsy  
• Sigmoidoscopy
• Skin self-exam
• TRAP - Tartrate Resistant Acid Phosphatase
• Upper GI and small bowel series
• Ultrasound
• Ultrasound - breast
• Ultrasound - testicle
• Ultrasound - thyroid
• Urinalysis
• Urine chemistry
• Urine Cytology
• White blood count (WBC)
• X-ray
• X-ray - abdomen
• X-ray - bone(s)
• X-ray - chest
• X-ray - head
• X-ray - skeleton

For additional information on specific types of cancer, visit cancer overview.

Go to the Baptist Online Cancer Resource Center.