Our Goal

To provide compassionate, leading cancer care that helps those in need throughout Dallas County prevent, detect, treat and survive cancer with dignity.

Our Challenge

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Dallas County, with lung, breast, and colorectal cancers the most commonly diagnosed. But just as the demand is there, appropriate access to vital treatment often is not.

At Parkland, we’re on a mission to change that, with a focus on early detection, diagnosis, and treatment.

Our Solution

Parkland currently handles over 50,000 cancer visits and 2,000 new cancer cases each year. By continuing to innovate new treatments, and by increasing outreach to our most underserved communities, we will address the disparities in cancer care across Dallas County.

What’s Next?

Our approach helps facilitate screenings and decreases diagnosis times, leading to earlier staging and treatment. To achieve these goals, Parkland:

• Works to remove barriers to screenings by offering low cost or no cost screening options to all Dallas County residents
• Providing wraparound services such as charitable care, no cost transportation services and no-cost, trauma-informed childcare to patients undergoing cancer treatment
• Ensures patients have access to the tools they need to battle illness with the help of patient navigators who work alongside our clinical teams 
• Is increasing access to robotic bronchoscopy and cardio oncology 
• Provides comprehensive survivorship tools along with compassionate palliative and hospice care

Learn more

Discover more about our approach to cancer care here.