Cancer detection
Baptist Hospital East services
- Colon Cancer Hotline helps expedite screenings
- 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
- 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 - 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
- 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 - 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
- CBC
- CEA
- Cell surface antigen studies
- Chest CT
- Chest MRI
- Chest X-ray
- Colonoscopy
- Cold knife cone biopsy
- CSF cell count
- CSF total protein
- CT
- CT chest
- CT head
- CT lungs
- Cytology exam of pleural fluid
- Digital rectal exam
- EEG
- 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
- Kidney function tests
- Liver function tests
- Lung needle biopsy
- Lymphangiogram
- Male self-examination
- Mammography
- Mediastinoscopy with biopsy
- MRI
- MRI - abdomen
- MRI - chest
- MRI - head
- MRI - heart
- Pap smear
- Pleural needle biopsy
- PSA
- PTH-related protein
- Radionuclide cystogram
- Sigmoidoscopy
- Skin self-exam
- Tartrate Resistant Acid Phosphatase
- Upper GI and small bowel series
- Ultrasound
- Ultrasound - breast
- Ultrasound - testicle
- Ultrasound - thyroid
- Urinalysis
- Urine chemistry
- Urine cytology
- 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.