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At Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, our surgeons work with a multi-disciplinary team of physicians to provide patients the care and treatment needed to fight illness and continue with daily life. Our patients' needs, outcomes and current research findings are all combined to develop individual plans for each patient.

What We Offer Our Patients

• Surgical Oncology offers the novel surgical treatment, Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) to our patients with advanced abdominal malignancies. Feist-Weiller Cancer Center is the only cancer center in Louisiana that offers HIPEC presently. 
   
• We offer Mammosite, the 5-day targeted radiation therapy for breast cancer patients. This outpatient radiation treatment allows patients to finish treatments sooner and get back to daily life. 

• We have excellent, caring nurses to help our patients navigate through the medical system at Feist Weiller Cancer Center.

• A Minimally Invasive Surgery Program has been established for our cancer patients. 
  
  
• We offer robotic-assisted surgical procedures with the daVinci® surgical system.

• Feist-Weiller has the highest concentration of Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) trained surgical oncologists in the area and has been recongizned nationally for our breast cancer outcomes.
  
  
• Our surgeons are included in the Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary (HPB) group - the only such multidisciplinary group in the region.

Cancers We Treat

Feist-Weiller Cancer Center Breast Cancer
Outcomes Among Best in U.S.

Our fellowship-trained, surgical oncologists diagnose and provide surgical care for patients with all types of cancer:

• breast cancer
• skin cancer
• cancers of the gastrointestinal tract (including esophagus, stomach, hepatobilliary, pancreas, small bowel, colon and rectum)
• soft tissue sarcoma
• recurrent and/or metastatic disease

Annually, the Surgical Oncology service cares for approximately 10,000 patients. We are a major referral center for complex abdominal surgeries throughout the state of Louisiana.