Overview
Our team offers personalized therapies based on biopsies and molecular testing, which means that treatments are tailored to the specific type of cancer.
Our surgeons have performed thousands of neck and abdominal endocrine-specific surgical procedures, ranging from minimally invasive to complex. Novel surgical techniques are employed, including minimally parathyroid and thyroid surgery and minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic adrenal surgery. Endocrinologists are sub-specialized, focusing their entire clinical practice on treating all forms of endocrine neoplasia disease and working alongside surgeons to ensure optimal treatment pre-operatively, during surgery, and post-operatively.
Goals include lower complication rates, shorter hospital stays, lower overall costs, less likelihood of cancer recurrence, and fewer repeat operations as compared to nationally published data.
Challenging cases are discussed in a multidisciplinary fashion at a weekly tumor board attended by experts from surgery, endocrinology, pathology, radiology, and oncology.
Patient support services assist patients in maintaining quality of life throughout treatment and recovery. Adult and pediatric patients are seen at Duke Cancer Centers in Durham and Raleigh.
