The University of Alabama at Birmingham opened its Multidisciplinary Colorectal Cancer Clinic Feb. 28.
Here's what you should know.
1. The clinic is going to serve as a one-stop shop for patients.
2. Multiple specialists will practice out of the clinic, preventing patients from having to make several visits across a series of days.
3. The clinic was established as a multidisciplinary effort between the university's gastrointestinal surgery department, hematology and oncology department and department of radiation oncology.