The Cancer Center provides a full complement of radiation therapy services located one mile from the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas at the St. Luke’s Radiation Therapy and CyberKnife® Facility (view map).  All parking is complimentary at this facility. 

Technology includes:

• CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System:  The new CyberKnife® System is an advanced robotic radiosurgery technology with a continual image guidance system that delivers unprecedented targeting accuracy and a unique ability to automatically correct for intra-fraction target motion without interrupting the treatment or having to reposition the patient.  The beams move in real time with 3D respiratory motion.  The system provides unparalleled healthy tissue preservation.  Typically requiring only five or fewer outpatient visits, the CyberKnife System offers many cancer patients an effective and pain-free alternative to surgery and other prolonged, time-consuming therapies. Learn more about our Cyberknife® System.
  
• Trilogy Image-Guided Radiation Therapy:  The Trilogy system is the first in a new generation of cancer care systems. A versatile system optimized for multiple forms of treatment, from radiation therapy to radiosurgery.  The versatile Trilogy system delivers 3D conformal radiotherapy, IMRT, stereotactic radiosurgery, fractionated stereotactic radiation therapy, and intensity-modulated radiosurgery for cancer and neurosurgical treatment.  Learn more about our Radiation Therapy.
  

Diagnostic and Treatment Technology at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and Outpatient Centers:

• Open MRI at St. Luke’s Radiation Therapy and CyberKnife® facility  

• Three Radiation Therapy Units:  CyberKnife®, Trilogy and IMRT Linear Accelerator
• PET/CT Technology (fused metabolic images and anatomic images)
• Siemens CT-Scanners – 4-, 16-, and 64-Slice; GE 8- and 16-Slice in Radiation Oncology

 

• Siemens High Field Strength 3 Tesla MRI Scanner
• Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)
• DaVinci Robotic Surgery
• Digital Mammography
• Breast MRI following ACoS Guidelines
• Radiofrequency Ablation
• State-of-the-art operating room suites and dedicated inpatient surgical units to consolidate specialized care for breast, colorectal, lung, gastrointestinal, and other surgery
• Sentinel lymph node mapping for breast surgery and for melanoma
• Stereotactic biopsy and fine-needle biopsy
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Laparoscopic surgical procedures
• Mastectomy with immediate reconstructive surgery
• Breast conservation surgery
• Targeted cancer therapies
• Chemotherapy, biochemotherapy, hormone therapy, chemoprevention
• Clinical Research Trials and Gene Therapy Research
• 34-bed Oncology Inpatient Care Unit at St. Luke’s staffed by oncology-certified nurses
• 13-private chairs in the Oncology Outpatient Infusion Center with oncology-certified nurses,  located one-mile from the Texas Medical Center.  Free parking.