MD Anderson expands imaging services in West Houston

Debra Beachy | | Health Imaging | Screening

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is opening a full-service diagnostic imaging center in west Houston, it announced.

The MD Anderson Diagnostic Imaging in West Houston will open Sept. 2.  Located on the Katy Freeway, it will join other Texas Medical Center institutions also located there that have expanded to west Houston in recent years. They include Methodist Hospital, Texas Children’s Hospital and Memorial Hermann Health System.

The facility, which will occupy the first floor of a mid-sized office building, will house a separate women’s imaging center. The facility will provide MRI, CT, PET, digital x-ray, and ultrasound-guided biopsies, digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis, according to a press release.

Debra Beachy

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