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Southwestern Center for Breast Care: Our Outpatient Facilities
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Seay Biomedical Building (North Campus), 2201 Inwood Road, Dallas, Texas  75390

Many of our outpatient services are centrally located at the Seay Biomedical Building on the Southwestern Medical Center North Campus.  The Seay Building offers a comfortable, convenient setting for diagnostic evaluations, medical treatment, surgical consultations, genetic counseling and cancer risk assessment, psychosocial support, high-risk patient monitoring, and many other important services.   All are in adjacent locations, including radiation therapy in the Moncrief Radiation Oncology Center.

On the third floor of the Seay Building are Breast Imaging Services, Breast Surgery Services, the Mary L. Brown Breast Cancer Genetics and Risk Assessment Program, The Carolyn W. Walker Breast Care Center Library with a section devoted to patient support programs, and a large suite of patient examination and consultation rooms.  On the second floor is the Medical Oncology Clinic which includes examination rooms and extensive infusion facility.

Aston Ambulatory Care Building (South Campus), 5303 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, Texas  75390

Additional outpatient services are delivered at the Aston Building on Southwestern's South Campus.  These include those delivered by Plastic Surgery Associates and by the Surgical Oncology Service.

• Moncrief Radiation Oncology Center (North Campus), 5801 Forest Park Road, Dallas, Texas  75235

Dedicated to bringing to North Texas the latest advancements in cancer treatment, the Moncrief Radiation Oncology Center opened on Southwestern's North Campus in September, 2003.  Officials say it will join the ranks of the best cancer radiation oncology centers in the nation because of its state-of-the-art technology and research capabilities.  Included among these are three Varian linear accelerators with the capability for intensity-modulated radiation therapy, which through computer targeting delivers a high dose of radiation more precisely to a tumor, sparing surrounding healthy tissue.

UT Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Center in Fort Worth (with treatment facilities in Fort Worth, southern Tarrant County at Huguley Hospital, and in Weatherford), 1450 Eighth Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas  76104

The UT Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Center represents a partnership between the Moncrief Cancer Center of Tarrant County and UT Southwestern Medical Center.  Southwestern's Center for Breast Care/Simmons Cancer Center affiliation expands the Moncrief Center's original purpose as a state-of-the-art radiation oncology center to include cancer diagnosis and treatment, along with a clinical trials program.

Mary Nell and Ralph B. Rogers Magnetic Resonance Center (North Campus), 5801 Forest Park Road, Dallas, Texas  75390

The Rogers Center provides MR mammography, imaging and spectroscopy services for patients in the Center for Breast Care.  Studies are under way at the Breast Center to assess whether MR mammography has diagnostic advantages over traditional X-ray mammography.

UT Southwestern Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging Facility (West Campus), 1311 Record Crossing, Dallas, Texas  75235-1513

Southwestern's PET facility is equipped with two high resolution scanners, including a state-of-the-art combination PET/CT scanner.  Besides providing a valuable tool for early detection and diagnosis of some forms of cancer, PET also provides a way to predict whether tumors will respond to various forms of cancer treatment and can help physicians measure how responsive tumor cells have been to treatment.

 

 

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