Why Multidisciplinary Care?

Women face a landslide of challenges
when they hear the words, “You have
breast cancer.”

In short, it offers a patient the greatest depth of medical expertise and the widest range of advanced diagnostic and treatment opportunities with the least wasted time and added stress, all in a single location. Add a full menu of on-site auxiliary services plus compassionate delivery, and you begin to get the picture.

The multidisciplinary clinics at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center consolidate the center’s resources into specialized, synergistic units for patient care, and are the only such cancer clinics in South Texas. They offer patients the best possible treatment from a team of top cancer specialists and provide patients with confidence in their own choices.

CTRC’s multidisciplinary clinics:
• Offer patients a depth and breadth of experience inherent in academic medical centers, as well as awareness of the latest research findings.

• Provide top physicians whose specialties are diseasespecific. An oncologic psychologist is also part of the team.

• Assemble a patient-focused medical team to create a comprehensive care plan for each patient.

• Streamline diagnosis, treatment and follow-up because all the specialists work together as a team in a single location.

• Feature diagnostic and treatment services that range from genetic and molecular testing to individual and full imaging capabilities.

• Offer more state-of-the-art equipment, enabling our specialists to utilize the very best treatment option for each patient.

• Provide a gateway for participation in the world’s largest, most extensive Phase I clinical studies program and other important clinical studies that give our patients access to therapies unavailable in other settings.

• Offer patients auxiliary services including education, support groups, nutrition counseling, library access, assistance from social workers, pain management, prevention, physical therapy, stress management and other comprehensive services.

• Coordinate the many aspects of cancer care, including the critical availability of the appropriate medical records, prescription records, test results and other important information.

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