Lung Cancer Care at the Joe Arrington Cancer Research & Treatment Center

When you’re a patient at Covenant, we don't just treat your lung cancer – we treat you. We focus on whole-person care for the body, mind and spirit of all our patients. We are committed to catching and treating cancer as early as possible. If you’re at high risk of lung cancer, we offer a low-dose CT scan monitoring program to help find it in its earliest stages.

4101 22nd Place, Lubbock, TX 79410
1133.2 miles away
806-725-8000
806-725-5101

Lung Cancer Care at the Joe Arrington Cancer Research & Treatment Center

When you’re a patient at Covenant, we don't just treat your lung cancer – we treat you. We focus on whole-person care for the body, mind and spirit of all our patients. We are committed to catching and treating cancer as early as possible. If you’re at high risk of lung cancer, we offer a low-dose CT scan monitoring program to help find it in its earliest stages.

4101 22nd Place, Lubbock, TX 79410
1133.2 miles away
806-725-8000
806-725-5101

About Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is a type of thoracic cancer that begins in the lungs. It is often caused by exposure to tobacco, though there are rising numbers of patients being diagnosed with lung cancer who have never smoked or been exposed to secondhand smoke.

Our expert oncology team uses the most effective, leading-edge therapies to treat patients with lung cancer and its related conditions, including:

  • Non-small cell lung cancer
  • Small cell lung cancer
Couple On Boat

Lung Cancer Screening

Early detection of cancer increases the likelihood of positive long-term outcomes. We strive to empower you to take control of your respiratory health. Undergoing a lung cancer screening can help detect early-stage lung cancer, even if symptoms aren’t apparent. Learn more about lung cancer screening today.

Learn More About Screening

Personalized Treatment for Lung Cancer

We offer a wide range of advanced treatment options for our lung cancer patients, from diagnosis to post-treatment support. But your care begins well before treatment. We start taking care of you as soon as you walk through our doors. Your multidisciplinary care team works with you to design an individualized care plan, which may include one or more of the following: 

Systemic therapies travel through the bloodstream and affect cells in other body parts. They are used for patients whose cancer has spread to other areas of the body or if there’s a high risk of spread. Sophisticated genetic analysis allows us to target therapies to specific DNA mutations that cause cancer cells to develop and grow. Systemic therapies include:

  • Chemotherapy
  • Clinical trials
  • Immunotherapy
  • Molecularly targeted therapy

Surgical therapies involve an operation or procedure to remove cancer from the body. Surgery may be the main treatment for some invasive cancers, but it’s only one part of the entire treatment plan. Surgical therapies include:

  • Lung lobectomy
  • Open lung wedge resection
  • Pneumonectomy
  • Segmentectomy
  • Sleeve lobectomy
  • Video-mediastinoscopy

Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation from a source like X-rays or photons to kill cancer cells or shrink tumors. It may be part of a treatment plan that also includes systemic therapies and/or surgery. Radiation is sometimes used to help ease a patient’s pain or discomfort. Radiation therapies include:

  • Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3DCRT)

Testing and Diagnostics

Your doctors use many diagnostic and prognostic tools to learn which therapies work best to treat your cancer. Taking into account factors specific to your case, like cancer type and the genetic or molecular profile of the tumor, this may include one or more of the following: 

  • Gene expression assay
  • Genomic tumor profiling
  • MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
  • PET/CT scan

In addition, we offer low-dose CT scan monitoring to help detect lung cancer in its earliest stages. This screening program is used to monitor patients who are at risk of lung cancer, including current and former smokers. We also offer a smoking cessation program.

Why Choose Us for Your Lung Cancer Care?

From diagnosis to recovery, we see the life in you. You have access to the best lung cancer specialists and a full range of support services for you and your loved ones – all conveniently located here in the region’s largest, most prestigious health system.

Doctor with patient smiling

As our patient, you’ll receive personalized care throughout every stage of your cancer journey, beginning with screening and early diagnosis and continuing through treatment and ongoing support. We coordinate your care to make the process easy for you.

One thing patients can count on is that cancer care takes a team! Your multidisciplinary team may include board-certified medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and pulmonologists. If you need surgery as part of your treatment, our experienced thoracic surgeons use the most advanced and minimally invasive techniques.

Your care team may include oncology nurse navigators, pathologists and other cancer specialists. We provide you and your family with a full range of support services well beyond conventional treatment, from genetic counseling and education to nutrition and pain management – through the only outpatient palliative medicine clinic in the region.

Cancer doesn’t discriminate, but access to great cancer care hasn’t always been the same for everyone. At Covenant Health, we are deeply committed to making sure every patient we treat has access to the best cancer care. We offer a shuttle service and partner with the American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge to provide patients in need with free lodging.

We value, respect and support the racial, ethnic, religious, spiritual, gender and sexual identities of each member of our diverse communities. In keeping with our Mission, Providence offers financial assistance programs that provide free and low-cost care to those who are eligible.

Covenant Health features world-class oncologists backed by a deep team of specialists. Covenant is part of the Providence family, and as our patient, you have access to the largest community-based cancer network in the United States. This means that your local cancer care team shares knowledge and experience with other world-class clinicians across Providence’s 51 hospitals in seven states. The power of our network is one of the reasons hundreds of newly diagnosed lung cancer patients choose us for their cancer care each year.

Covenant Health is known for offering options – and hope – to patients seeking advanced therapies to treat their lung cancer. As our patient, you can participate in one of our many clinical trials. This includes FDA-regulated trials to develop new cancer therapies.

As a member of the Providence family, we partner with the Providence Research Network and the Providence Molecular Genomics Laboratory to continually improve our care for the best outcomes. We also participate in a tissue repository in partnership with Texas Tech University to help researchers learn more about cancer and its spread. 

Supporting Our Cancer Patients

Part of treating your illness means supporting and empowering you as a whole person – body, mind and spirit. We provide you with a wide range of support services beyond conventional treatment to help you and your loved ones through your treatment journey as comfortably as possible. Depending on your personal needs, this may include one or more of the following:

  • Chaplain services
  • Community partnerships
  • Counseling
  • Genetic counseling
  • Interpreter services
  • Lodging services
  • Mobile in-home health
  • Nurse navigation
  • Nutrition services
  • Oncology pharmacy
  • Outpatient services
  • Palliative care
  • Physical rehabilitation
  • Screening programs
  • Social work services
  • Support groups
  • Transportation services
  • Women’s health services
The Power of Our Network

Part of Providence Covenant Health System

We’ve been caring for patients throughout West Texas and eastern New Mexico for over 100 years, and our patients are at the center of everything we do.

  • We have the only freestanding children’s hospital and on-site genetic counseling service in the region.
  • With a mission to improve patient care and outcomes, we collaborate with research organizations like Texas Tech University and the Children’s Oncology Group.
  • Partnering with outside organizations, we help patients in need find lodging and shuttle service if they must travel for care.
Doctor sitting with patient
Senior woman looking hopeful as she gazes out window

Find Clinical Trials

Are you looking for a clinical trial for yourself or for a patient? We’d love to help you find one!

Research and Clinical Trials

Looking for a Different Location?

Expert Tips and Advice for Cancer

Comprehensive Genomic Profiling leads to better patient outcomes, new joint study says  
Real-world data from Providence, Illumina and Microsoft Research finds cancer patients with early genomic testing received better precision treatment, underlines urgency to become standard practice
Leadership change at Providence Cancer Institute, #FINISHCANCER goal remains
11/14/2024
R. Bryan Bell, M.D., D.D.S., FACS, FRCS(Ed) has accepted the roles of executive medical director of Providence Cancer Institute and director of the Earle A. Chiles Research Institute.
2024 SITC Meeting: A glimpse of recent advancements in immunotherapy
11/19/2024
The annual SITC meeting brings together cancer immunotherapy researchers with a goal to advance science, discover breakthroughs and educate the world on cancer immunotherapy.
Harnessing CAR T-cell therapy: A new study for indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
10/30/2024
New study evaluates a type of CAR T-cell therapy called liso-cel. Researchers will collect data from multiple groups in a study that may give patients hope for long-term remission and quality of life.
Read More Articles