Imaging
Cancer Care Northwest’s sophisticated imaging capabilities allow your doctors to detect and treat cancer faster and more effectively than ever before. Our certified radiologic technicians are specially trained in oncology. Using advanced imaging technologies, they take high-quality, clear digital pictures of the inside of your body that help your doctors answer questions such as:
- Where is the tumor?
- Is it malignant?
- Is it spreading?
- How large is it?
- What is the best way to treat it?
- Is the treatment working?
Cancer Care Northwest’s imaging services include:
- PET/CT: Our Discovery STE PET/CT scanner, the most advanced imaging technology available, combines two powerful imaging technologies into one procedure.
- CT: Special x-ray technology that takes multiple images of the inside of the body from all angles and creates a three-dimensional view of tissues.
- Ultrasound: A machine that uses sound waves to produces images of soft tissue inside of your body.
- Oncologists use these and other imaging methods, such as x-rays, nuclear medicine and radiography.
Imaging is an extremely versatile, essential tool that is used by your integrated team of oncologists at all levels of your treatment. At Cancer Care Northwest, medical oncologists use imaging to diagnose and stage cancer. Surgical oncologists use imaging to localize the cancer and to plan for surgery. And radiation oncologists rely on imaging to help them more accurately measure and plan the radiation beams that treat the cancer. The imaging technology helps your physician asses and then produced an effective treatment plan and also the ability to monitor the changes throughout.
Cancer Care Northwest is home to some of the most advanced imaging technologies in the Inland Northwest, including the only Discovery STE PET/CT Scanner in the region. This highly sophisticated scanner not only shows the location and nature of a tumor, but can also image a tumor’s movement to prepare accurate treatment plans.