Tests, Procedures and Treatments
When the care team at City of Hope® is developing a diagnosis or treatment plan for cancer and other conditions, they may order a variety of tests and/or recommend certain procedures or treatment options. It’s important to ask the care team about terms that are unfamiliar to develop a solid understanding of what’s happening and to make informed decisions about the road ahead.
The following list includes some of the tests, procedures and treatments that may be part of the diagnosis and care plan:
- Barium swallow
- Bispecific antibodies
- Biopsy
- Blood stem cell and bone marrow transplant
- Blood stem cell and bone marrow transplant (pediatric)
- Blood transfusion
- Bone marrow biopsy and aspiration
- BRAF Mutation
- Breast biopsy
- Breast MRI
- Breast ultrasound
- CA 19 9
- Cancer blood tests
- Cancer vaccines
- Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)
- CBC (complete blood count) testing
- Checkpoint inhibitors
- Chemotherapy
- Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy
- Computed tomography (CT) scan
- Core Needle Biopsy
- Cryoablation
- Cystectomy
- Cystoscopy
- Cytokines
- Debulking surgery
- Ductogram
- Embolization procedures
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Endoscopic ultrasound
- Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD)
- Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA)
- Gene therapy
- Genicular artery embolization (GAE)
- Hormone therapy for cancer
- Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC)
- Immunotherapy
- Interventional radiology (Image-guided therapy)
- KRAS Mutation
- Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty
- Liquid biopsy
- Liver function tests
- Lumbar puncture
- Lymph node removal (lymphadenectomy)
- Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP)
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan
- MEK Inhibitors
- Microwave and radiofrequency ablation
- Mohs surgery
- Monoclonal antibodies
- Natural killer cell therapy
- Omentectomy
- Oncolytic virus therapy
- Oopherectomy
- Orchiectomy
- Pap test
- PARP inhibitors
- Positron emission tomography (PET) scan
- Prostate artery embolization
- Prostate biopsy
- Punch Biopsy
- Radiation therapy
- Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection
- Salpingectomy
- Sigmoidoscopy
- Stool tests
- Thrombectomy and thrombolysis
- Thyroid nodule ablation
- TIPS procedure
- Tumor infiltrating lymphocyte therapy
- Tumor markers
- Ureteroscopy
- Urine cytology
- Urostomy
- Uterine fibroid embolization
- Y90 treatment
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