Detection & Diagnosis

Getting an accurate and timely diagnosis is the critical first step to winning a battle with cancer. That is why East Alabama Health uses the most advanced, most extensive diagnostic tools available to help determine what kind of cancer you have, its location and the most effective way to treat it. Along with lab and pathology testing, endoscopy procedures and surgical biopsies, our services include the following:

• Positron Emission Tomography/CT (PET/CT) scanning 
• 64-slice and 16-slice CT scanners
• 1.5T MRI scanners; 3T MRI (the most powerful MRI available for clinical use) at the Auburn University MRI Center.
• Digital mammography
• Breast MRI biopsies, stereotactic breast biopsies, and sentinel node biopsies
• Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI) at East Alabama Health
• Nuclear medicine and ultrasound imaging