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Comprehensive Cancer Care, 
Close to Home

Convenient Cancer 
Care, Near You

Our Cancer Locations Have Expanded

• The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center in New Orleans recently doubled in size, making it one of the region’s leading destinations for comprehensive cancer care.

• The new St. Tammany Cancer Center - A Campus of Ochsner Medical Center in Covington offers multidisciplinary design where patients benefit from a collaborative approach to cancer care.
  

• Ochsner Cancer Center - Baton Rouge, a newly renovated building, is the only cancer program in Baton Rouge that offers a hematology and oncology outpatient health center with both chemotherapy infusion and radiation oncology services on one floor.

We Treat All Kinds of Cancer

Learn More About These Cancer Specialties 

Surgery can be used to prevent, diagnose, stage and treat cancer. Curative surgery is a treatment done when cancer is found in only one part of the body, increasing the likelihood that all of the cancer can be removed. We offer minimally invasive surgical options including robotic-assisted surgeries, which result in better outcomes and shorter hospital stays.

How Is Cancer Treated?

Chemotherapy

Surgery

Radiation Therapy

Immunotherapy

Other Procedures

Drugs used in chemotherapy target cells at different phases while in the process of developing new cells, and since cancer cells usually form more quickly than healthy cells, they make good targets for the chemotherapy drugs.

Other common names for this therapy are radiotherapy, irradiation and x-ray therapy. Like chemo, radiation therapy can be used to cure, shrink and treat symptoms caused by advanced stage cancer.

This type of cancer treatment uses part of a person’s immune system to treat cancer. It can stimulate the body’s immune system in a general sense, or stimulate it to attack cancer cells specifically.

Hyperthermia, photodynamic therapy, blood transfusion and donation, and laser treatment are all additional treatments that could be used to manage cancer.

A Day in the Life of the Cancer Experts at Ochsner

How Is Cancer Treated?

Prevention and early detection can save your life. Through education and routine screenings, we can improve our community’s health.

Know Your Risk

Know Your Risk

5 Recommended Screenings for Women

1.   Breast Cancer Testing: Many breast cancers don't come with symptoms and are only detected on screening

     mammograms, which is why we encourage yearly mammograms for most women over age 40, regardless of

     family history.

2.   Cervical Cancer Testing: Women should begin screening for cervical cancer at age 25. You should also have a  

      Pap test every three to five years and an HPV test. OBGYNs generally perform this screening.

3.   Colon Cancer Testing (Colonoscopy): Starting at age 45, women should talk with a healthcare provider about  

      testing options.

4.   Skin Cancer Check: Starting at age 18, recommended for adults during periodic physical examinations or more

      often at your doctor's discretion. Dermatologists generally perform this screening.

5.   Lung Cancer Testing: Any woman ages 50+ that is currently a smoker or was a heavy smoker should speak  

      with their doctor about if a CT scan is right for them.

4 Recommended Screenings for Men

1.   Prostate Cancer Testing: Men over the age of 50 should talk to a healthcare provider about testing (age 45           for African Americans).

2.   Colon Cancer Testing (Colonoscopy): Starting at age 45, men should talk with a healthcare provider about            testing options.

3.   Skin Cancer Check: Starting at age 18, recommended for adults during periodic physical examinations or                more often at your doctor's discretion. Dermatologists generally perform this screening.

4.   Lung Cancer Testing: Any man ages 50+ that is currently a smoker or was a heavy smoker should speak with            their doctor about if a CT scan is right for them.

*Screening criteria recommended by American Cancer Society

5 Recommended Screenings for Women

1.   Breast Cancer Testing: Many breast cancers don't come with symptoms and are only detected on screening mammograms, which is why we encourage yearly mammograms for most women over age 40, regardless of family history.

2.   Cervical Cancer Testing: Women should begin screening for cervical cancer at age 25. You should also have a Pap test every three to five years and an HPV test. OBGYNs generally perform this screening.

3.   Colon Cancer Testing (Colonoscopy): Starting at age 45, women should talk with a healthcare provider about testing options.

4.   Skin Cancer Check: Starting at age 18, recommended for adults during periodic physical examinations or more often at your doctor's discretion. Dermatologists generally perform this screening.

5.   Lung Cancer Testing: Any woman ages 50+ that is currently a smoker or was a heavy smoker should speak with their doctor about if a CT scan is right for them.

4 Recommended Screenings for Men

1.   Prostate Cancer Testing: Men over the age of 50 should talk to a healthcare provider about testing (age 45 for African Americans).

2.   Colon Cancer Testing (Colonoscopy): Starting at age 45, men should talk with a healthcare provider about testing options.

3.   Skin Cancer Check: Starting at age 18, recommended for adults during periodic physical examinations or more often at your doctor's discretion. Dermatologists generally perform this screening.

4.   Lung Cancer Testing: Any man ages 50+ that is currently a smoker or was a heavy smoker should speak with their doctor about if a CT scan is right for them.

*Screening criteria recommended by American Cancer Society

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