CCNW’s mission is rooted in integrated care. An essential part of this is CCNW’s lab department, with 70% of clinical decisions, including diagnosis and treatment of disease, depending on laboratory testing results.
Cancer patients frequently need lab services throughout their cancer treatment. Prior to a diagnosis, patients typically require some sort of blood draw. Their physician can use these results and other diagnostic testing such as imaging to determine their patient’s diagnosis. During treatment, patients typically have laboratory testing done to ensure that they are healthy enough to receive their treatment and to verify that a treatment is working. Once a patient is done with treatment, laboratory testing is performed over time to verify the patient’s remission.
In collaboration with trusted local laboratories, CCNW offers patients a comprehensive list of cancer blood and tissue tests that detect:
All of these advanced laboratory tests are ordered by CCNW’s providers and sent out from the three main laboratory locations (North, South, and Valley), with each site performing up to 100 patient draws per day and averaging around 50-60 per day.
