Surgery
Specialized surgery to remove cancer.
Surgery is a primary treatment method used to treat most types of cancer. Surgery alone may successfully remove cancers that have not yet spread to other parts of the body (localized cancer). Or, it is often paired with other treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
Surgery is also instrumental in cancer diagnosis. A biopsy is a surgical procedure to remove and examine suspicious tissue. Surgery is helpful in staging the cancer, which tells you if and where cancer has spread.
Surgeons with Cancer Expertise
Fighting cancer with surgery is what Cancer Care Northwest’s fellowship-trained surgical oncologists know and do best. Focused exclusively on cancer surgery, they have extensive experience and skill in the most advanced techniques used today to diagnose and treat all types of cancer, with special expertise in:
Our surgical oncology team offers the Inland Northwest a level of surgical care some would expect only to find in a larger market like Seattle. In fact, our surgical oncologists introduced several innovative procedures to Spokane, including Heated Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) to treat abdominal cancers; Mammosite to treat breast cancer; and sentinel lymph node biopsy to stage breast cancer and melanoma.
What’s more, Cancer Care Northwest is the only cancer treatment center in the region with surgeons who specialize in gynecologic oncology.